For a full listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://arts.unl.edu.
April 22: Opera Scenes. 4 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. This performance is the final project for the Intermediate/Advanced Opera Techniques course. The theme this year is "Opera On The Big Screen," featuring operatic scenes that are used in movie soundtracks.
April 22: Chamberfest. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119.
April 22: Wind Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. The concert will also be webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the evening of the concert for the link.
April 22-26: University Theatre presents "Medea." April 21-25 at 7:30 p.m. April 26 at 2 p.m. Studio Theatre, first floor of Temple Building. Tickets available at the door.
April 23: Informal Q&A with artist Susan Puelz, who is receiving our Alumni Achievement Award in Art. 2 p.m. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall.
April 23: Campus Band. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general or $3 students/seniors, available the door. The concert will also be webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the evening of the concert for the link.
April 24: Reception for MFA Thesis Exhibition III. 5-7 p.m. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery. Celebrate the work of Chadric Devin (photography) and Kelly Stading (sculpture).
April 25: Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts Honors Day Dinner. 5 p.m. By invitation only. The event honors students, faculty, staff and alumni.
April 25: "Ode to Joy" Beethoven Masterworks. 7:30 p.m. Lied Center for Performing Arts. Tickets available through the Lied Center Box Office at (402) 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231. Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra's season finale begins with a grandiose performance of a Beethoven masterwork, the “Emperor” Piano Concerto with pianist Jon Nakamatsu, and culminates with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D Major. The Abendmusik Chorus, Doane Choir, UNL’s Chamber Singers, and UNL’s University Singers join the symphony in the performance of the year.
April 26: Symphonic Band. 3 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general or $3 students/seniors, available the door.
April 27: Percussion Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general or $3 students/seniors, available the door. The concert will also be webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the evening of the concert for the link.
April 28: Kim Russo "What Happens Next is None of Your Business." 5:30 p.m. Sheldon Museum of Art. Russo is an artist, writer, teacher and administrator who currently works at California Institute of the Arts. During her talk, using her own studio work and professional path as examples, she will explain why your only job as an artist is to be authentic, sincere, and passionate.
April 28: Evening of Choirs. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general or $3 students/seniors, available the door.
April 29: Campus Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general or $3 students/seniors, available the door.
April 30: UNL Jazz Orchestra and UNL Big Band. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general or $3 students/seniors, available the door. The concert will also be webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the evening of the concert for the link.
May 1-2: Spring Clay Club Sale and Raffle. May 1 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and May 2 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 118. The sale will include works of art created by graduate students, undergraduate students, alumni, and faculty representing a broad range of aesthetics, techniques and concepts.
May 1-2: Spring 2015 Photo Club Sale and Raffle. May 1 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and May 2 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The sale will include work and by current undergraduate and graduate photography students. Enter the raffle for a chance to win pieces by current graduate students and/or photo faculty, Dana Fritz and Walker Pickering. Raffle tickets are $1 each or $5 for 6, entrants need not be present at the drawing to win.
May 1-8: Capstone Exhibition. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 12:30-4:30 p.m. An opening reception will be held on Friday, May 1 from 5-7 p.m. A closing reception will be held on Friday, May 8 from 5-7 p.m.
May 1: Musical Theatre Review. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. Featuring a cast of 10 musical theatre performers, "Whose Song is it Anyway?" is sure to add a spark of fun to your Friday night. The audience will participate in choosing parameters for the improvised elements in the musical theatre scenes from 10 different musicals featured in this 60-minute performance. A game show format will allow the audience to participate from their seats without any risk of embarrassment. Come and share in the musical theatre mayhem.
May 3: Symphony Orchestra. 3 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets are $5 general and $3 for students/seniors. The concert is titled "First and Favorites." The program will include Johannes Brahms’s monumental Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 and Claude Debussy’s ever-popular Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. Also on the program, UNL faculty soloist Paul Haar will join the ensemble in two works for saxophone and orchestra: Pensamientos, by the noted Hollywood arranger and jazz artist Clare Fischer, and the Scaramouche Suite by Darius Milhaud.