For an updated listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://arts.unl.edu.
• Continuing through Nov. 1: Lincoln Collects: The Steve Wake Collection Exhibition. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 12:30-4:30 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public. A First Friday closing reception will be held on Friday, Nov. 1 from 5-7 p.m.
• Oct. 24: University Singers and All-Collegiate Choir with Bellevue East High School. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center. Free and open to the public. In a concert titled "Our Season's Changing Light," music is chosen to reflect change, progress and unity.
• Oct. 24: Alloy Orchestra performs live accompaniment to the 1924 French silent film "Gallery of Monsters." 7:30 p.m. Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. Tickets are $25 general, $20 seniors, $15 students and Friends of the Ross and $5 for UNL, SCC, Nebraska Wesleyan and Union College students. Called “the best in the world at accompanying silent films,” by Roger Ebert, the Alloy Orchestra is a three-man musical ensemble, writing and performing live accompaniment to classic silent films. The Alloy Orchestra's score for "Gallery of Monsters" was commissioned by Indiana University Cinema and the Indiana University Office of the Bicentennial.
• Oct. 27: Guest Artist Percussion Collective. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public.
• Oct. 28: University of Nebraska Brass Quintet. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. Members include Darryl White, trumpet; Catherine Sharp-Martinez, trumpet; Alan F. Mattingly, horn; Scott Anderson, trombone; and Ravil "Bo" Atlas, tuba.
• Oct. 29: UNL Saxophone Ensembles. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the day of the concert for the link.
• Oct. 29: Percussion Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. The Percussion Ensemble was selected for a second time as winners of the Percussive Arts Society International Percussion Ensemble Competition. The group will perform an hour-long showcase concert at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) in November. Come see this award-winning group of percussionists in action as they present the first performance of their convention program right here in Lincoln.
• Oct. 30: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lectures: Lauren Gallaspy and Sunkoo Yuh, ceramic artists. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the UNL Clay Club. Gallaspy is a studio artist in Los Angeles, who was recognized by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts as an Emerging Artist in the field in 2013. Yuh is professor at the Lamar Dodd School at the University of Georgia in Athens. His current focus is on type of architectural-scale sculpture and pushing his medium to its limits of size.
• Oct. 30: Bassoon Studio Performance. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public.
• Nov. 3: Concerto Graduate Competition. 6 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free and open to the public.
• Nov. 4: Concerto Undergraduate Competition. 6 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free and open to the public.
• Nov. 6: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture: Sara Langworthy, book artist. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Langworthy lives and works in Iowa City, Iowa, where she maintains a private studio and is associate professor of practice at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. At the University of Iowa, Langworthy leads the letterpress printing area and oversees the printing studios.
• Nov. 6-17: Nebraska Repertory Theatre presents "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams. For showtimes and tickets, visit http://www.nebraskarep.org. Revisit one of the most beloved plays of the 20th century, Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie." This riveting "memory play" follows the fragile Wingfield family—Tom, an aspiring poet, his painfully shy sister Laura, and their mother Amanda, a faded southern belle. Dreams and reality collide in this play of exquisite beauty.
• Nov. 8: IGNITE with Dawn Luebbe and Jocelyn DeBoer. 12:30-1:50 p.m. Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts Rm. 101. Free and open to the public. IGNITE is a weekly colloquium for all Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts students, which will involve guest lectures, workshops and seminars around creative and professional development. Luebbe is a UNL alumna who is coming home to share her work. Luebbe and DeBoer co-directed the film "Greener Grass" and will be sharing clips of their movie and their filmmaking journey.
• Nov. 8: Nebraska Lectures featuring Jamie Reimer, associate professor of voice, and Brenda Wristen, professor of piano and piano pedagogy, performing "Nebraska Songbook," composed by Greg Simon, assistant professor of composition. 3:30 p.m. Sheldon Museum of Art's Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. Free and open to the public. This lecture is part of Nebraska Research Days, a campuswide celebration of research, scholarly and creative activity.
• Nov. 8: MFA Open Studios. 5-7 p.m. Richards Hall and Woods Art Building. Open Studios is an opportunity for the public to explore the creative studios of artists in the MFA program, who are working in ceramics, painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography and social practice. Visitors will have the chance to see developing artworks in progress, to ask questions about processes and ideas and to make personal connections with artists whose work moves them.
• Nov. 12: Guitar Ensemble. 7 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. The Guitar Ensemble presents a program of music that showcases a variety of styles performed in different settings that include solo, duo, quartet, and quintet.
• Nov. 13: Moran Woodwind Quintet. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. The concert opens with the most famous quintet by the father of the woodwind quintet, Anton Reicha, who wrote 24 such works. Concluding the program is Hindemith’s celebrated Kleine Kammermusik, one of the all-time standards in the repertoire. Also, on the program are La Nouvelle Orléans by film composer Lalo Schifrin, whose Mission: Impossible theme is world famous. Rounding out the program is a delightful work by Katherine Murdock, titled Postcards from the Center. Murdock was a professor at Wichita State University, and all five short movements are inspired by Kansas postcards.
• Nov. 14: Karen Becker, Cello, and Mark Clinton, Piano. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free and open to the public.
• Nov. 15: Forum on the Future of Media and Education. 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts. Free and open to the public.
• Nov. 15 and 17: Opera: "The Gambler's Son" by Tyler White. Performances are Nov. 15 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 17 at 3 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $20 adults and $10 students/seniors, available at the door. For advance ticket sales, contact the Lied Center Box Office at (402) 472-4747. "The Gambler's Son" is adapted from Mari Sandoz's novel, "Son of the Gamblin' Man," which tells the true story of the founding of Cozad, Nebraska, of its larger-than-life founder, John J. Cozad, and of his son, the illustrious American painter, Robert Henri. The work was created with the generous support of the Lincoln Community Foundation, the UNL Friends of Opera, and the Wilson Foundation. The opera is by Tyler Goodrich White (composer) and Laura White (librettist).
• Nov. 17: Dedication of the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts. 1 p.m. 13th and Q streets. Free and open to the public.
• Nov. 18: ChamberFest. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free and open to the public.
• Nov. 19-20: Honors ChamberFest. 7:30 p.m. each night. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public.
• Nov. 25: UNL/LPS String Project. 6 p.m. Park Middle School in Lincoln. Free and open to the public.
• Nov. 25: Flyover New Music Series. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. The Flyover New Music Series is the new music series from the composition studio in the Glenn Korff School of Music.
• Nov. 25: Brass Ensembles. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. This concert showcases three of the Glenn Korff School of Music's brass ensembles: The UNL Trumpet Ensemble, directed by Darryl White; the Husker Horn Choir, directed by Alan F. Mattingly; and the UNL Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble, directed by Bo Atlas.