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• Sept. 25: Viola Bash. All-day. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119 and 132.
• Sept. 28: Guest Artist: Greg Sauer, cello. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. Sauer is Professor of Cello at the Florida State University. A native of Davenport, Iowa, Sauer attended the Eastman School of Music and the New England Conservatory. Sauer has recorded for MSR Classics, Harmonia Mundi, Albany, and Mark Records.
• Sept. 29-Oct. 10: Nebraska Repertory Theatre presents "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Temple Building. For dates, showtimes and ticket information, visit https://nebraskarep.org.
• Oct. 1-Nov. 5: Faculty-Staff Exhibition. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery, first floor of Richards Hall. Work from faculty and staff in the School of Art, Art History & Design will be on display. An opening reception will be held on Friday, Oct. 1 from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery. A closing reception will be held Friday, Nov. 5 from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery.
• Oct. 4: Men's Choral Festival. All-day. Kimball Recital Hall. Men’s Choirs from the area take part in a festival throughout the day.
• Oct. 5: Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Singers Performance. 7:30pm. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets are $5 general admission and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link.
• Oct. 6: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Odalis Valdivieso. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Valdivieso lives and works in Miami. She received a master of fine arts degree from Royal College of Art in London. Among other awards, she is the recipient of a 2021 United States Artists/ NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Painting. Her paper objects have been exhibited internationally. She has been a resident artist at the Brooklyn Public Library in New York and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami.
• Oct. 6: Faculty Recital: Scott Anderson, trombone. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. The concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link. Anderson is Professor of Trombone in the Glenn Korff School of Music. He has long been a champion of French music for the trombone. The music on his recital will feature some of the best-known composers of this very specialized genre. Composers such as Edmond Missa, Georges Pfeiffer, Paul Vidal, Charles Tournemire, Philippe Gaubert and Carlos Salzedo are household names when it comes to solo music for the trombone. The works by these composers are wonderful character pieces that challenge the performer and charm audiences. Many of the works on this recital cannot be heard on recordings or on any other media. Don't miss this chance to hear important and obscure music for trombone and piano. Anderson will be joined by pianist Michael Cotton.
• Oct. 7: Big Band Performance. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets for this performance are $5 general admission and $3 for students/seniors, available at the door. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link.
• Oct. 8: Wind Ensemble Performance. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets are $5 general admission and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link. The Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Carolyn Barber, is the university’s premier concert band. Their inaugural concert will feature Lewis Buckley’s “Bright Colored Dances,” Aldo Raphael Forte’s “Impressionist Prints,” and Jere Hutcheson’s “Caricatures.” The Ensemble Performance Lab has been experimenting with intention and inclusion this semester. How vividly are we able to portray each of the colors, each of the prints, each of the caricatures? More importantly, will the audience be able to tell which is which? On Oct. 8 they will be experimenting and playing games designed to connect the audience’s experience to the ensemble’s efforts throughout the performance. If you’re up for some art-based musical fun, this event is for you.
• Oct. 10: Symphony Orchestra Performance. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets are $5 general admission and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link. Members of the Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Tyler White, include students from throughout the university. Their program will feature music by Mozart, Dvorak, C.P.E. Bach and American composer T.J. Anderson.
• Oct. 12: Symphonic Band Performance. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets are $5 general admission and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link. The Symphonic Band, under the direction of Associate Director of Bands Anthony Falcone, has the distinction of being the band program’s top symphonic ensemble. Their program is titled "1971" and features works composed, along with pieces by composers who were born or died in that year. You’ll hear music by John Barnes Chance, James Bonney, Ayatey Shabazz, Karl King, Hirokazu Fukushima and Fisher Tull.
• Oct. 13: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Raymond Meeks. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Meeks has been recognized for his books and pictures centered on memory and place, the way in which a landscape can shape an individual and in the abstract and how a place possesses you in its absence. His books have been considered as a field or vertical plane for exploring interior co-existences, as life moves in circles and moments and events, often years apart, unravel and overlap, informing new meanings. Meeks lives and works in the Hudson Valley (New York). His work is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Bibliotheque Nationale, France; and the George Eastman House. He is a recent recipient of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography.
• Oct. 14: Evening of Choirs. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center, 320 N. 16th St. Free and open to the public. Featuring performances by University Singers and All-Collegiate Choir.
• Oct. 15: Flyover Performance I. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link. The Flyover New Music Series is the new music series from the composition studio at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Glenn Korff School of Music. The series is administered and overseen by composition faculty and students.
• Oct. 16: Bass Day. All-day. Westbrook Music Building. The Glenn Korff School of Music Bass Day is hosted by Dr. Hans Sturm. The event is free, but you must register in advance. Contact Dr. Sturm at hsturm2@unl.edu for more information.
• Oct. 16: Cellobration. All-day. Westbrook Music Building. The event is free and open to all cellists, cello teachers, and cello enthusiasts. Hosted by Dr. Karen Becker. Contact her at kbecker2@unl.edu for more information.
• Oct. 21-22: Nebraska Music Teachers Association State Conference, hosted by the Glenn Korff School of Music. For more information, visit https://nebmta.org. Featured guest artists from the Glenn Korff School of Music include The Moran Quintet, David von Kampen, Paul Barnes, Marques L.A. Garrett and Madeline Rogers, as well as special guest Victoria Bond, composer, conductor, lecturer and artistic director of Cutting Edge Concerts.
• Oct. 21-24 and 28-31: Nebraska Repertory Theatre presents "ShakesFEAR." Visit http://nebraskarep.org for showtimes and ticket information. “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” Enter the demented mind of William Shakespeare. Go on a harrowing journey to recover one of Shakespeare’s lost plays. To escape a spell cast by the Weird Sisters, you’ll have to confront a murderous king, meddling fairies, ghastly ghosts and a bloody butcher with an appetite for blood! This immersive theatrical experience is NOT recommended for children under 13 or the faint of heart.
• Oct. 25: Brass Ensembles Performance. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Tickets are $5 general admission and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link.
• Oct. 25: Celebration of Victoria Bond. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link. The Celebration of Victoria Bond will include performances by Marguerite Scribante Professor of Piano Paul Barnes with Madeline Rogers, Florencia Zuloaga, Christian Johnson and Trey Meyer. Bond leads a multifaceted career as composer, conductor, lecturer, and artistic director of Cutting Edge Concerts. Her compositions have been praised by The New York Times as “powerful, stylistically varied and technically demanding,” and her conducting has been called “impassioned” by the Wall Street Journal and “full of energy and fervor” by The New York Times. Bond has composed eight operas, six ballets, two piano concertos and orchestral, chamber, choral and keyboard compositions.
• Oct. 26: Evening of Choirs. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets are $5 general admission and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link. Evening of Choirs will include Chamber Singers, University Chorale and Varsity Chorus. University Chorale will have an eclectic mix of old and new music in several languages. Chamber Singers will celebrate the possible 500th anniversary of Vincente Lusitano's birth, who is likely the first published Black composer. Additional songs in a neo-Renaissance style and contemporary works complete their set. The concert ends with the choirs combined with All-Collegiate Choir, a chamber orchestra, and faculty tenor Kevin Hanrahan for a centennial celebration to perform R. Nathaniel Dett’s "The Chariot Jubilee," which was premiered in 1921.
• Oct. 27: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Mark Dion. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Conceptual artist Mark Dion will present the next Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture. Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge and the natural world. Appropriating archaeological, field ecology and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Dion also frequently collaborates with museums of natural history, aquariums, zoos and other institutions mandated to produce public knowledge on the topic of nature. He is the co-director of Mildred’s Land an innovative visual art education and residency program in Beach Lake, Pennsylvania. For more than two decades, Dion has worked in the public realm in a wide range of scales, from architecture projects to print interventions in newspapers.
• Oct. 31: Graduate Concerto Competition. 6 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free and open to the public.