For a full listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://www.unl.edu/finearts.
Dec. 3: Saxophone Studio Concert. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free. This concert will feature music from Francaix, Boucard, Glazounov, Bach, MacDowell, Galante and Romero. In addition to the four saxophone quartets from UNL, the concert will feature a guest high school saxophone quartet from Kearney High School.
Dec. 4: Wind Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 for students/seniors available at the door.
Dec. 5-8: Theatrix presents "Lion in the Streets" by Judith Thompson and directed by Maggie Austin. Dec. 5-7 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 8 at 2 p.m. in the Lab Theatre, third floor of the Temple Building at 12th and R sts. The play grapples with issues of class and racial strife, sexual discrimination, molestation and murder. Through a series of vignettes, told through the eyes of a ghost named Isobel, this play explores the burden of memory and the power of forgiveness. Tickets are available online at http://go.unl.edu/nxpg or at the door.
Dec. 6: Chamber Singers. 5 p.m. Sheldon Museum of Art. Free.
Dec. 6: Big Red Singers and Vocal Jazz. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 for students/seniors available at the door.
Dec. 6-7: Student Dance Project. 7:30 p.m. Mabel Lee Hall Rm. 304. Tickets: $5 general and $3 for students/seniors available at the door.
Dec. 8: UNL Choirs. 3 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 for students/seniors available at the door.
Dec. 10: Jazz Orchestra and Big Band. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 for students/seniors available at the door.
Dec. 11: Symphonic Band. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 for students/seniors available at the door. Three Nebraska premieres will be featured in this celebration of Nordic inspiration: Hearshen’s “Danish Bouquet” (an homage to the classic “Lincolnshire Posy”), Hyldgaard’s exuberant “Tivoli Festival Overture,” and Turner’s epic “Rumpelstilzchen.” Two favorites by Percy Grainger will complete the scene: “Country Gardens,” and the rarely heard “Faeroe Island Dance.”
Dec. 12: Symphony Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 for students/seniors available at the door. The UNL Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Tyler Goodrich White, gives the first performance of UNL Professor Eric Richards's newly revised concert overture "WIZOO!" Violist Jonah Sirota of the Chiara String Quartet then joins the orchestra for the lyrical and intensely rhythmic Viola Concerto by Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer John Harbison. The concert concludes with the songful, stirring, and rarely heard Symphony No. 6 in D major of Czech master Antonin Dvorak.
Dec. 13: Musical Theatre Showcase. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free. If you love musical theatre, this is an evening not to be missed. Ten scenes from both classic and more contemporary musicals will be performed in an hour-long performance by UNL's musical theatre students. Coordinator of Musical Theatre Studies Alisa Belflower will host the showcase introducing a few new musicals as well as giving you new insights into more familiar musical theatre works included in this fast-paced musical showcase.
Dec. 15: Handel's Messiah. 7 p.m. Southwood Lutheran Church, 9300 S. 40th St. in Lincoln. Free.
Dec. 16-20: Capstone Exhibition. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Closing reception Dec. 20 from 5-7 p.m. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 12:30-4:30 p.m. Free admission.
Dec. 17: Cornhusker Marching Band Highlights. 7:30 p.m. Lied Center for Performing Arts. Tickets: $20 adults and $10 students/seniors. For advanced tickets, contact the Lied Center Box Office at (402) 472-4747.