For a full listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://www.unl.edu/finearts.
March 1: Flute Day. Kimball Recital Hall. 7:30pm recital free and open to the public.
March 2: Guitar Ensemble. 3 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free. The Guitar Ensemble, made up of three undergraduate guitar performance majors and led by DMA GTA Aaron Stroessner, will feature two guitar quartet works including an arrangement of Maurice Ravel’s "Pavane pour une infante défunte" (Pavane for a Dead Princess). In addition, two guitar duets will be performed, as well as a solo guitar piece by each member of the quartet.
March 4: Guest Artist: Virginia Broffitt Kunzer, Flute. 7 p.m. Westbrook Rm. 119. Free. Kunzer is Professor of Flute at Oklahoma State University. She will be accompanied by UNL's Ann Chang in works by Telemann, Gaubert and Martinu.
March 4: University Singers. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors available at the door. Their program titled "Promise, Progress and Pioneers" features music by living choral composers.
March 5: UNL Jazz Orchestra and UNL Big Band. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors available at the door.
March 5-8 and 11-15 at 7:30 p.m. and March 16 at 2 p.m.: University Theatre's "Really, Really." Directed by Laura Lippman. Studio Theatre, 1st floor Temple Building. Tickets available through the Lied Center Box Office at (402) 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231, online at http://unltheatretickets.universitytickets.com/ or at the door.
March 9: Chamber Singers. 3 p.m. Sheldon Museum of Art. Free. This special concert event will gather together many artistic forces to reach out to our community in one voice and raise awareness for Doorways to Hope, a community arts project that is raising funds to build a Habitat Home called an "Art House Build" in Lincoln. Includes the Chamber Singers, NOVA (Nebraska Organization of Vocal Artists), Skyros String Quartet, NAOVA (Nebraska Academy of Vocal Arts) Children's Choir and the UNL Dancers. Presented through the Glenn Korff School of Music and the Sheldon Museum of Art as part of the UNL Chamber Singers Concert Series, in partnership with Hildegard Center for the Arts and Lincoln/Lancaster County Habitat for Humanity.
March 11: Symphonic Band. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors available at the door. Join the Symphonic Band conducted by Prof. Anthony M. Falcone "On the Red Carpet" for a program of Nebraska Premieres. Professor of Oboe Dr. William McMullen will be featured in a new transcription of Albinoni's Concerto for Oboe in d minor, Op. 9, No. 2, along with other new works by Mark Camphouse, John Mackey, Travis Cross and Michael Schelle.
March 12: Wind Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors available at the door. Two UNL colleagues collaborate with the band this spring: soloist Craig Fuller will be featured in the Nebraska premiere of Dana Wilson’s “Concerto for Tuba,” and composer Randall Snyder will unveil the revision of his “Short Symphony for Wind and Percussion Ensemble.” Rounding out this eclectic program will be Gandolfi’s charismatic “Vientos y Tangos”– inspired by the compositions of Astor Piazzolla–and a rare performance of Schmitt’s landmark “Dionysiaques.”
March 13: Symphony Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors available at the door.
March 14: Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium presents a Lecture by Andrew Solomon. 5:30 p.m. Sheldon Museum of Art Auditorium. Free and open to the public. Solomon is a writer and lecturer on psychology, politics and the arts; winner of the National Book Award; and an activist in LGBT rights, mental health and the arts. His newest book, "Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity," published in 2012, won the National Book Critics Circle award and eight other national awards.
March 16: Choral Concert. 3 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors available at the door.
March 17: University of Nebraska Brass Quintet. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors available at the door.
March 17-28: Undergraduate Juried Exhibition. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. A reception will be held on Friday, March 21 from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery.
March 17-20: Theatrix presents "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Jeffrey Hatcher. Directed by Sean Grosshans. 7:30 p.m. Lab Theatre, 3rd floor Temple Building. Tickets available at the door or online at http://unltheatretickets.universitytickets.com/.
March 18: Faculty Jazz Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors available at the door.
March 19: Moran Woodwind Quintet. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors available at the door. The Moran Woodwind Quintet will be performing music of 20th century Norwegian composer Johan Kvandal, the Quintet of Paris Conservatory flute professor Paul Taffanel (a standard in the literature), La Nouvelle Orléans by Lalo Shifrin (composer of the Mission Impossible Theme) and a short work by André Souris, called Rengaines (roughly "the same old stories"), where a peppy theme is transformed into a march, a polka, a waltz, a galop and several other characters.
March 20: Chiara String Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $20 adults, $10 seniors and $5 students available in advance from the Lied Center Box Office at (402) 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231 or at the door.
March 31: Paul Haar, Saxophone. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free.