Thu, Mar 22, 2007
March 22, 2007
KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, 7:30PM
School Of Music Presents Student Composers
Composition students of Randall Snyder will present a concert of new music this evening at 7:30 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall. The music, performed by the composers and students, ranges widely in style and sound, from more traditional songs and chamber pieces to jazz and multimedia works employing video. Undergraduate composers are Nathan Todhunter, Luke Polipnick, and David Von Kampen. Graduate students are Jonathan Crosmer, Steven Moellering, Kurt Kneckt, Jeff Richmond, and Jen-Kuang Chang.
Tickets are $5 for general admission, $3 for students and seniors, and will be available at the door approx. one hour before the performance.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
VOTING THROUGH MARCH 26
Textiles Student's Work Chosen As Finalist
First year textile design graduate student Mary Pattavina's design for the Chrysler Sebring Hats off to the Kentucky Derby has been chosen for the voting round of fifteen. Her design (Number 11 on the website), was chosen out of over one hundred entries.
The top 5 designs will be given money and material to construct their hats for yet another round of voting. The top three will then get a trip to the Kentucky Derby and one will win a Chrysler Sebring convertible. Voting will continue through March 26.
HATS OFF TO THE DERBY CONTEST
LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, 7PM | LIVE STREAM AVAILABLE BEFORE EVENT
Sherwin Nuland is Thompson Forum, Kripke Lecture Speaker
Sherwin B. Nuland, clinical professor of surgery at the Yale School of Medicine and fellow of Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies, will give this year's final E.N. Thompson Forum lecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Nuland's lecture, "Faith, Philosophy and Medicine: Reflections on Maimonides," is also the Kripke Lecture, cosponsored by the Norman and Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies at UNL. It is free and open to the public and begins at 7 p.m. tonight at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St. It will be broadcast live on the UNL web site, Lincoln cable Channel 21, UNL campus TV Channel 8, NEBSAT 105 and KRNU radio station (90.3 FM). more...
E.N. THOMPSON FORUM
BRACE LABORATORY, 3:30PM
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - "Attosecond Nonlinear Optics"
Dr. Oren Cohen, JILA/University of Colorado, Boulder. Colloquium Abstract Refreshments: Brace Lab 201 at 3:30 p.m.
AVERY HALL, 4PM
Lecture - "Computer Science in the Information Age"
Dr. John Hopcroft, Cornell University
HAYDON ART CENTER, 5:30PM
Gallery Talk - "On Art Quilt Makers in Europe"
Michael James, UNL
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Lives Of Others, Commune Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Lives Of Others and Commune. Commune will show through March 22, while the Oscar-winning (for best foreign-language film) The Lives Of Others will play through March 29.
At once a political thriller and human drama, The Lives Of Others begins in East Berlin in 1984, five years before Glasnost and the fall of the Berlin Wall and ultimately takes us to 1991, in what is now the reunited Germany. The Lives Of Others traces the gradual disillusionment of Captain Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Muhe, best known for his lead roles in Michael Haneke's Funny Games and as Dr. Mengele in Costa-Gavras' Amen), a highly skilled officer who works for the Stasi, East Germany's all-powerful secret police. His mission is to spy on a celebrated writer and actress couple, Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) and Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck).
During the radical fervor of the early 1970s, utopian communities dotted the American landscape. They aimed to reshape the world with "free love" and common property, and they excited controversy and fear amongs local residents across the country. Though the idea of communes is now often relegated to a naive past, Berman discovers a successful and lasting, if controversial, legacy at the influential Black Bear Ranch in Siskiyou County, California. With archival footage from the early days, and the present-day views of Black Bear members and their offspring, Commune is a revealing look at how our most basic choices about family, work, and the nature of our relationships send powerful and lasting shock waves through the fabric of society.
More information is available at the Ross website.
