Mon, Jun 09, 2008
June 9-13, 2008
Raikes' Name Proposed for Prestigious UNL Computer, Management Program
The J.D. Edwards Honors Program in Computer Science and Management will soon have a new name if the University of Nebraska Board of Regents approves the change at its June 13 meeting. Under a proposal submitted to the board, the program would become the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management, named in honor of a long-time key supporter of the program.
Jeff Raikes, a Nebraska native, recently announced his retirement this fall as president of Microsoft Corp.'s Business Division after 27 years with the company. Raikes has served on the board of the J.D. Edwards Program since its inception. He initially helped conceptualize the program to be responsive to the demands of the business community, and has mentored many of its students. more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART SCULPTURE GARDEN, TUE 7PM
Sheldon's 17th Jazz in June Season Continues
Now in its 17th season, the Jazz in June concert series continues with great jazz and great food in the great outdoors on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus this summer. The concerts, which begin at 7 p.m. and draw thousands of music and art lovers each week, are held under the trees on the plaza west of Sheldon Museum of Art, 12th and R streets.
This week, The Dan Thomas Quintet will delight with evolution and creativity. "Jazz is about creation and things being new and fresh," says saxophonist Thomas. "We don't try to re-create moments. We make new ones." Although the material is original, the quintet focuses on the hard bop East Coast tradition, and at times, reaches into the full spectrum of jazz from early swing, bop, free jazz, postmodern bop, and eastern music. more...
JAZZ IN JUNE
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Young @ Heart and The Visitor Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Young @ Heart and The Visitor. Both films will show through June 19.
As early as autumn 2006, surreal and hilarious video clips of Stephen Walker's documentary Young @ Heart (which originally aired on the BBC) were making the rounds on YouTube and in email inboxes all over the U.S.--tantalizing, out-of-context glimpses of the Young @ Heart vocal choir, composed of elderly men and women, having a go at chestnuts by Sonic Youth, the Clash, and the Ramones. It seemed that the feature film, re-released for the screen in 2008, would perhaps be an uncomfortably comic look at a bunch of geezers set up to look ridiculous for the smug delectation of hipster audiences everywhere. The reality is not so far off-base, at least on first glance, but Walker's film, tracking the progress of the chorus as they prepare for a big gig, provides enough good-natured humor, personal narrative, and intimate details to inspire respect and admiration--and some major heart-string-plucking--in filmgoers. Viewers witness the blossoming of long-buried or completely latent musical talents in the elderly folks; learning the new, unfamiliar material, under the direction of irascible 50-something conductor Bob Cilman, keeps their neurons firing and their emotions kindled, while communing with and trusting each other staves off the isolating effects of old age, even as they cope with heartbreaking losses within their ranks.
In a world of six billion people, it only takes one to change your life. In actor and filmmaker Tom McCarthy’s follow-up to his award winning directorial debut The Station Agent, Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under) stars as a disillusioned Connecticut economics professor whose life is transformed by a chance encounter in New York City.
More information is available at the Ross website.
