For a full listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://arts.unl.edu.
• Oct. 28: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Danny Fingeroth. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free public lecture titled "Why Superheroes? Why Now? Or What Are the Avengers Avenging, Anyway?" Fingeroth was a longtime writer and editor for Marvel Comics.
• Oct. 29-31: Temple of Terror Haunted House: "Nightmare on R Street." 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. each night. $5 per person or $3 per person in groups of five or more. Temple Building, 12th and R sts. Use the north entrance. Nebraska Masquers sponsors this haunted house in the Temple Building. Come if you dare!
• Oct. 31: Guest Artist Leone Buyse, flute. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Rm. 119. Free. Buyse relinquished her principal positions with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops in 1993 to pursue a more active solo and teaching career after 22 years as an orchestral musician.
• Nov. 3: Public lecture by Garth Johnson. 5:30 p.m. Woods Art Building Rm. 11. Free. Johnson returns to campus in November as part of the Alumni Masters Week, Nov. 4-6, sponsored by the Nebraska Alumni Association, Scarlet Guard and the UNL Chancellor’s Office.
• Nov. 5: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Tara Sabharwal. Free public lecture. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 14. The Under Pressure Print Club, with the assistance of the Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Series, welcomes Tara Sabharwal to UNL Nov. 2-6. There will be a reception and demonstration in Woods Art Building Rm. 303 following the public lecture on Nov. 5.
• Nov. 6-24. Nebraska's Best: High School Artists from Southeast Nebraska. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. First Friday opening reception Nov. 6 from 6-8 p.m. Awards announced at 7 p.m.
• Nov. 8: Graduate Jazz Combos. 3 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free.
• Nov. 9: Faculty Jazz Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free. This concert will also be webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu/webcast the day of the concert for the link. Comprised of some of the nation’s finest performers and educators, the UNL Faculty Jazz Ensemble drew national attention in 2010 with their appearance on the NET Television and Glenn Korff School of Music program Jazz Cabaret, which has been viewed by millions. From unique arrangements of jazz and popular standards to original works, the UNL Faculty Jazz Ensemble presents a varied and exciting program. The ensemble is comprised of Peter Bouffard (guitar), Paul Haar (saxophone), Dave Hall (percussion), Tom Larson (piano), Hans Sturm (bass) and Darryl White (trumpet).
• Nov. 10: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artists in Ceramics Peter Beasecker and Jeanne Quinn. Free public lectures. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. The UNL Clay Club presents Beasecker and Quinn in residence Nov. 9-13. Demonstrations will be from 1-4:30 p.m. on Nov. 9 and 10 in Richards Hall Rm. 118.
• Nov. 11: Jazz Combos. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free.
• Nov. 12-14 and 18-22: University Theatre presents "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee." Performances are Nov. 12-14 and 18-21 at 7:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. on Nov. 22. Howell Theatre, 1st floor of the Temple Building. Tickets: $18 adults, $16 faculty/staff and seniors and $12 for students with ID. Advance tickets are available through the Lied Center Box Office, (402) 472-4747. Music and lyrics by William Finn. Book by Rachel Sheinkin. Conceived by Rebecca Feldman. Additional material by Jay Reiss. Directed and choreographed by guest director Sean McKnight. The hilarious and touching stories of six awkward yet entertaining teen as each one, vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime, hopes to be the last speller standing at the final “ding” of the bell.
• Nov. 12: Karen Becker, cello, and Mark Clinton, piano. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free. Becker, professor of cello, is the principal cellist of Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra and director of the UNL/Lincoln Public Schools String Project. Clinton is Hixson-Lied Professor of Piano and head of the keyboard area.
• Nov. 13: Open Studios Event. 5-8 p.m. Richards Hall and Woods Art Building. Open Studios is an opportunity for the public to explore the creative studios of artists in the MFA program, working in ceramics, painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and social practice. Visitors will have the chance to see developing artworks in progress, to ask questions about processes and ideas, and to make personal connections with artists whose work moves them. Admission is free.
• Nov. 13 and 15: Opera: Don Giovanni. 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 13 and 3 p.m. on Nov. 15. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $20 adults, $10 students/seniors. Advance tickets available from the Lied Center Box Office at (402) 472-4747. Mozart’s masterpiece, one of the world’s most-performed operas, is based on the legends of Don Juan. Giovanni, the young, arrogant, promiscuous nobleman, abuses and outrages nobility and peasantry alike, until he encounters something he cannot kill, seduce or outwit.
• Nov. 16: Guest Artist John Ellis, saxophone. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Ellis is widely recognized as one of New York’s premiere tenor saxophone voices. A sideman to artists as diverse as bass icon John Patitucci, organ legend Dr. Lonnie Smith, and MacArthur Fellow Miguel Zenon, Ellis has performed extensively around the world for the last 20 years.
• Nov. 17: Moran Woodwind Quintet. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free. One of the most active and visible quintets in the Midwest, the Moran Woodwind Quintet is the resident faculty woodwind quintet of the Glenn Korff School of Music. Formed in 1986 and named for the late John Moran, director of the UNL School of Music, the Quintet has toured extensively. They have also performed at conventions of the College Music Society, the International Double Reed Society and the International Horn Society. They have recorded three CD’s. The Quintet includes John Bailey on flute, Diane Barger on clarinet, Alan Mattingly on horn, Jeffrey McCray on bassoon and William McMullen on oboe.
• Nov. 18: Guest Artist Eric High, trombone. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free. High is assistant professor of music at St. Norbert College.
• Nov. 19: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Carol Golemboski. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free. The Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Series welcomes photographer Carol Golemboski to UNL Nov. 18-20. Golemboski uses antiquated objects as metaphors in carefully staged scenes. Her process, defined by the use of black and white film and traditional darkroom printing, combines photography and drawing in ambiguous and provocative ways. Her psychologically charged still life images draw on past eras to suggest the continuum of human emotions and anxieties, particularly relating to the experience of women.
• Nov. 22: Guitar Ensemble. 3 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. This concert will also be webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu/webcast the day of the concert for the link.
• Nov. 22: ChamberFest. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free. This concert features student ensembles from the Chamber Music Program.
• Nov. 23: Darryl White with guest artists Paul Soulek and Alan Wenger. 7:30 p.m. Kimball. Free. This concert will also be webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu/webcast the day of the concert for the link. White is associate professor of trumpet at the Glenn Korff School of Music. Soulek serves as Cantor of St. John Lutheran Church and School as well as an adjunct professor of music at Concordia University, both in Seward, Neb. Wenger is professor of trumpet at the University of Central Missouri.
• Nov. 23: Large Brass Ensembles. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free.
• Nov. 30: Trumpet Studio. 7 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free.