For a full listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://www.unl.edu/finearts.
May 1: Campus Bands. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. The UNL Campus Bands will present an evening of wind music in a concert titled "Interactions." The audience will be encouraged to live tweet during the performance. The Donald A. Lentz Concert Band will present works spanning five centuries by Iwai, Schoendorff, Smith, Standridge, Susato, and Ticheli while the Jack R. Snider Concert Band performs the music of Boysen, Del Tredici, Fillmore, Gilbert, Jordan, and Persichetti. The bands are directed by Assistant Director of Bands, Douglas W. Bush and Conducting Associates Chris Barnes and James Dreiling.
May 2-3: UNL Clay Club Spring Sale and Raffle and UNL Fine Art Photo Club's Spring Photo Sale. The Clay Club sale hours are Friday, May 2 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, May 3 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 118. The Photo Sale is 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day in Richards Hall Rm. 121. The sales will include works of art created by graduate students, undergraduate students, alumni and faculty, representing a broad range of aesthetics, techniques and concepts. Raffle tickets will also be sold at each sale.
May 2: Musical Theatre Review. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. A mini-celebration of musical comedy duets performed and narrated by eight graduate and undergraduate students featuring Levi Larson on piano. Directed by UNL's Coordinator of Musical Theatre Studies Alisa Belflower. This performance will feature five musical theatre scenes.
May 2: UNL Symphony Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. The performance includes Vaughan Williams: Overture to The Wasps; Elgar: Cello Concerto (Gregory Beaver, faculty soloist); Holst: The Planets.
May 4: Big Red Singers. 3 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. Featuring talented soloists and exciting choreography by April James, Ben Eklund and Daylan Fargo. Complemented by a cadre of 20 instrumentalists, this will be a musical evening you won't soon forget.
Faculty Artists: Karen Becker, Kate Butler and Susan Levine Ourada. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. "Seed of Dream and Other Visions (A Holocaust Remembrance Recital)" featuring Karen Becker, cello; Susan Levine Ourada, dance; and Kate Butler, mezzo-soprano with Michael Cotton, piano; and the UNL Senior Dance Ensemble.
May 5-9: Capstone Exhibition. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. An opening reception will be held on First Friday, May 2 from 5-7 p.m. A closing reception will be held on Friday, May 9 from 5-7 p.m. See the work of our graduating undergraduate studio art majors.