Coming in April

The Glenn Korff School of Music presents "Evenings of Dance" April 24-27 in the Lied Center's Johnny Carson Theater.
The Glenn Korff School of Music presents "Evenings of Dance" April 24-27 in the Lied Center's Johnny Carson Theater.

For a full listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://www.unl.edu/finearts.

April 1: Singing Small Festival Performance. 7 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free.

April 2: Clark Potter, Viola, with Guest Artist Matthew McCright, piano. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free. The program includes Bax's "Sonata for Viola and Piano;" Hindemith's "Sonata, Op. 11, No. 4 for Viola and Piano;" Vaughan Williams' "Romance" and Milhaud's "Four Visages."

April 3: Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium presents a free public lecture by Scott Frankel. 5:30 p.m. Steinhart Room of the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Frankel was nominated for Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for his work as composer of Grey Gardens. He's written music for Doll (Ravinia Festival; Richard Rodgers Award) and Meet Mister Future (winner, Global Search for New Musicals), both with lyricist/librettist Michael Korie. For more information and to RSVP, visit http://go.unl.edu/iedb.

April 3: Paul Barnes, Piano. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free. Marguerite Scribante Professor of Music Paul Barnes presents a program of works new and old inspired by other pieces of music.

April 5: Midwest ClariFest. All day. Kimball Recital Hall. Hosted by Hixson-Lied Professor of Clarinet Diane Barger.

April 5: Spring Strings. All day. Westbrook Music Building. High school students will work directly with UNL's award-winning string faculty and perform in a string orchestra conducted by Prof. Tyler White.

April 5-6: Lincoln Assassination Combat Workshop. All day, both days. Temple Building. This is the best place in the region for actors to learn safe, effective and exciting depictions of violence on stage or screen. Our teachers come from across the country and work in regional theatres, on Broadway and in Hollywood. Participants can come for one day or the whole weekend. For tickets, visit http://unltheatretickets.universitytickets.com/.

April 6: Lincoln-Omaha Society of the Archaeological Institute of America presents a free public lecture by Bridget Buxton from the University of Rhode Island titled "Underwater Archaeology: The New Holy Grails." 2 p.m. Abbott Lecture Hall at Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha.

April 7-11: MFA Thesis Exhibitions for Aaron Sober and Crisha Yantis. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Reception is April 11 from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery.

April 8: Lecture by UNL Professor of Educational Psychology Susan Swearer titled "Creating a Kinder World: Empowering Youth to End Bullying." 5:30 p.m. Lied Center's Steinhart Room. Presented by the Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium. In this multimedia presentation, Swearer will talk about her research on bullying prevention and intervention and the Born Brave Experiences study. For more information or to RSVP, visit http://go.unl.edu/s6mb.

April 8: Women's Choir Festival Performance. 7 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free.

April 9-10: Wet Ink featuring the work of student composers. 7:30 p.m. each night. Kimball Recital Hall. Free.

April 10-13: Theatrix presents the New Artists Festival. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. April 10-12 and 2 p.m. April 13 in the Lab Theatre, third floor of the Temple Building. For ticket information, visit http://www.unl.edu/theatrix.

April 13: Chamber Singers. 3 p.m. Nebraska State Capitol Rotunda. Free.

April 14: Free public lecture by Jazz Trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis titled "Sweet Thunder: Ellington, Shakespeare and The Blues." 228 Andrews Hall. Marsalis will discuss how Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn translated Shakespearean characters and works into their 1957 jazz suite "Such Sweet Thunder," his archival research into their compositional processes, and his own musical reinterpretation of the suite, released in 2011 as "Sweet Thunder: Duke and Shak." Marsalis’s lecture is sponsored by the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts, the Glenn Korff School of Music, the Department of English, and the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program.

April 14: Geske Lecture: Judith Ivey. 7 p.m. Sheldon Museum of Art's Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. Free. Reception to follow in the Great Hall.

April 14: Large Brass Ensembles. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free.

April 14-19: MFA Thesis Exhibitions for T.J. Edwards, Normandy Alden and Dustin Young. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Reception is April 18 from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery.

April 15: Jazz Combos. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free.

April 16: Saxophone Choir. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free. The Saxophone Choir, under the direction of Associate Professor of Saxophone Paul Haar, will present a featured recital titled "Music STOLEN for Saxophone." This concert will feature works by Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Grainger, Baldwin, Vivaldi, Albinoni and others.

April 16-19 and 23-27: University Theatre presents "In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play" by Sarah Ruhl. Directed by Jeremy Skidmore. Performances are April 16-19 and 23-26 at 7:30 p.m. and April 27 at 2 p.m. in the Howell Theatre. Tickets are $16 general, $14 faculty/staff/seniors and $10 students with ID available in advance at the Lied Center Box Office, (402) 472-4747 or online at http://unltheatretickets.universitytickets.com/ or one hour prior to the performance in the Temple Theatres Lobby.

April 17: University Singers. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general admission and $3 students/seniors, available at the door.

April 18: The Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium presents the musical theater production "it gets better," featuring members of the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles and the Lincoln High School Concert Chorale. 7:30 p.m. Lied Center's main stage. Tickets are free for UNL faculty/staff/students and are $18 adults and $9 for non-UNL students, available at the Lied Center Box Office. For more information, visit http://go.unl.edu/ias5.

April 21: Brass Chamber Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free.

April 21-25: MFA Thesis Exhibitions for Liana Owad and Camille Hawbaker. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Reception April 25 from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery.

April 22: 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.

April 22: Percussion Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general admission and $3 students/seniors, available at the door.

April 24: UNL Jazz Orchestra and UNL Big Band. 7:30 p.m. Sheldon Museum of Art. Free.

April 24-27: Evenings of Dance. 7:30 p.m. April 24-26 and 3 p.m. April 27. Lied Center's Johnny Carson Theater. $12 general admission, $10 faculty/staff and $7 students/seniors, available at the door.

April 25: Wind Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general admission and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. A tour de force of dazzling colors, intriguing forms, intimate and expansive emotions, manic energy and complete repose, inspiration, desolation and redemption–all in a single evening featuring Pann’s “Slalom,” Maslanka’s “A Child’s Garden of Dreams,” Grainger’s “Hill Song No. 2,” and the Nebraska premiere of Mackey’s “The Frozen Cathedral.”

April 27: ChamberFest. 1, 4 & 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general admission and $3 students/seniors, available at the door.

April 28: Choral Concert. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general admission and $3 students/seniors, available at the door.

April 29: Graduate Jazz Combos and Vocal Jazz. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free.

April 30: Symphonic Band. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general admission and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. Join the Symphonic Band, conducted by Associate Director of Bands Tony Falcone, as they "turn their eyes to the skies" with their final program of the year, "Looking Upward." David Maslanka's Mother Earth, with graduate teaching assistant conductor James Dreiling; John Philip Sousa's Looking Upward Suite; Galactic Empires by David R. Gillingham and David Holsinger's tour du force To Tame the Perilous Skies will be featured.