Fri, Oct 17, 2008
October 17-19, 2008
KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, SUN 1:30PM
School of Music Guest Recital and Masterclass
The UNL School of Music presents a guest recital from trombonist Joseph Alessi at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, October 19 in Kimball Recital Hall. In addition to the recital, Alessi, principal trombonist for the New York Philharmonic, will give a masterclass at 2:30 pm.
The program will include Elegy for Mippy II by Leonard Bernstein, Two Vocalises by Henri Busser, Minute Waltz by Frederic Chopin with arrangement by Robert Elkjer, and Midday by Nicola Ferro. Christi Zuniga, piano, will accompany. The recital and masterclass are free and open to the public.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
EAST CAMPUS UNION, FRI 3PM
Agronomy & Horticulture Seminar - "Tracing Gas Emissions from Maize-Based Cropping Systems"
Tim Arkebauer, Agronomy & Horticulture. Refreshments at 2:30 p.m.
117 BESSEY HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Department of Geosciences Stout Lecture - "Unravelling the Geoarcheology and Holocene Stratigraphy of the Grand Canyon and southern Colorado Plateau"
Tammy Rittenour, Utah State University. Refreshments at 3:15 p.m.
115 AVERY HALL, FRI 4PM
Mathematics Department Colloquium
Susan Cooper. Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m. in Avery 348. Colloquium overview
NEBRASKA UNION, FRI 4PM
Midwest Epistemology Workshop Keynote Lecture - "Self-Understanding"
Tyler Burge, Department of Philosophy at UCLA
HOWELL THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING, 7:30PM
Love Library Hosts 'Lewis and Clark and Indian Country' Exhibit
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Love Library is one of 23 libraries and four tribal locations across the United States to host the national traveling exhibit "Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country." The exhibit will be on display in Love Library, 13th and R streets, Oct. 17-Dec. 4, and a number of free programs will be offered.
"Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country" is an exhibition that examines the Lewis and Clark story from the perspective of the Native Americans the explorers encountered on the trail. The exhibit offers a compelling look at what happened when two nations and two ways of life came together in the early 19th century, and how that encounter resounded throughout Indian country and across the United States for the next 200 years. more...
LEWIS AND CLARK AND THE INDIAN COUNTRY
HOWELL THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING, 7:30PM
University Theatre Opens Season With An Experiment with an Air Pump
UNL's Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film's University Theatre presents Shelagh Stephenson's drama An Experiment with an Air Pump. The play, set in 1799 in a Northern English home abounding with scientific experiments, raises many of the same ethical quandries that challenged people living in 1999.
Performances will be held October 17 and 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Studio Theatre, first floor of the Temple Building at 12th and R Streets. Tickets are $16 regular, $14 faculty/staff and senior citizen, $10 student with ID. Tickets are available at the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 N. 12th or by telephone at 472-4747 or 800-432-3231.
