For an updated listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://arts.unl.edu.
• Sept. 26: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: David Baskin, sculpture. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Baskin has taught at the Cooper Union School of Art and the New York Institute of Technology and was a visiting critic at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He was one of the original members of the Brooklyn based non-profit art organization Smack Mellon.
• Sept. 26: Faculty Recital: Scott Anderson, trombone. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. Anderson's recital is titled "These my thoughts," which comes from the piece titled “Following Lee Konitz from Visions of Cody” by Randall Snyder. Anderson has been focusing on the performance of French works for trombone and piano and there will be three of the French works on this recital, but there are two chamber works as well.
• Sept. 26-Oct. 14: Nebraska Repertory Theatre presents "An Act of God" by David Javerbaum. Lied Center's Johnny Carson Theater. Visit http://nebraskarep.org for showtimes and ticket information. The One with the first and last word on everything arrives in Lincoln to set the record straight in this laugh-out-loud comedy.
• Sept. 27: Flyover New Music Series: "One." 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. The Flyover New Music Series is from the composition studio at the Glenn Korff School of Music.
• Sept. 30: TCB Saxophone Quartet. 3 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. Paul Haar (soprano saxophone), Nicholas May (alto saxophone), Wade Howles (tenor saxophone) and Bob Fuson (baritone saxophone), collectively known to enthusiastic audiences as the TCB Saxophone Quartet, bring the sounds of Latin America to the Glenn Korff School of Music.
• Oct. 1: Men's Choral Festival Performance. 6:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. Men's choirs from the area take part in a festival throughout the day with a final performance at night.
• Oct. 2: Guest Artist: Jonathan Scales Fourchestra. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. Jonathan Scales is one of the most innovative steel pannists on the planet, and is redefining and challenging traditional expectations of his signature instrument. In his hands, the sonic palette of an instrument often associated with cruise ships and tropical resorts is radically expanded to mimic the role of horns, piano, vibraphone or marimba due to his stunning, virtuosic technique.
• Oct. 3: Wind Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets are $5 general admission and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. The program is titled "Catharsis," and includes Bernard Rogers' "Dance with Pennons," Jennifer Jolley's "The Eyes of the World Are Upon You," and David Maslanka's Symphony No. 7.
• Oct. 3-19. Mid-America College Art Association Exhibition. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery, first floor of Richards Hall. Free and open to the public. Opening reception on First Friday, Oct. 5 from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery. Presented in conjunction with the MACAA Conference in Lincoln Oct. 4-5.
• Oct. 4-5. Mid-America College Art Association Conference. Embassy Suites Hotel, 1040 P St. in Lincoln. The School of Art, Art History & Design is hosting this annual conference. The conference theme is “Techne Expanding: Tensions, Terrains and Tools,” and will explore wide-ranging interpretations of technology and its use and impact on the teaching, making and performing of art, as well as the broader human experience. For more information about the conference, including registration information, visit http://www.macaart.org/.
• Oct. 4: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Behnaz Farahi. 5:30 p.m. Embassy Suites Hotel, 1040 P St. Free and open to the public. Farahi is a featured artist and presenter at the Mid America College Art Association Conference Oct. 4-5. Her lecture is titled "Emotive Matter from Fashion to Architecture."
• Oct. 5: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Andy Cavatorta. 4:30 p.m. Embassy Suites Hotel, 1040 P St. Free and open to the public. Cavatorta is a featured artist and presenter at the Mid America College Art Association Conference Oct. 4-5. Cavatorta's talk is about the surprising history of music and technology, his own work, the pleasures and perils of working in unexplored spaces, and the importance of fake rules.
• Oct. 7: Symphony Orchestra. 3 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets are $5 general admission and $3 students/seniors, available at the door.
• Oct. 9: Symphonic Band. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets are $5 general admission and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. This event will also be live webcast. Visit http://arts.unl.edu/music/webcasts the day of the performance for the link. The Symphonic Band opens its 2018-2019 season with a celebration of the music of Leonard Bernstein in honor of the centennial of his birth.
• Oct. 10: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Jim Richard. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Richard’s paintings, drawings, and collages can be found in the collections of Guggenheim Museum, The New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Houston Museum of Fine Art. He has an extensive exhibition record that includes the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Drawing Center, Oliver Kamm Gallery and Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York. He lives and works in New Orleans, where he taught painting for many years at the University of New Orleans.
• Oct. 10: Jazz Ensembles. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets are $5 general admission and $3 students/seniors, available at the door.
• Oct. 11: University Singers & All-Collegiate Choir. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center Church, 320 N 16th St. Free and open to the public.
• Oct. 13: 8th Annual Bass Day. All-day. Westbrook Music Building. The annual Bass Day is hosted by Hixson-Lied Professor of Bass Hans Sturm. For more information, visit https://go.unl.edu/2zxo.
• Oct. 13: Cellobration. All-day. Westbrook Music Building. The Cellobration will be hosted by Professor Karen Becker. For more information, visit https://go.unl.edu/2zxo.
• Oct. 18: Evening of Choirs. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets are $5 general admission and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. This event will also be live webcast. Visit http://arts.unl.edu/music/webcasts the day of the performance for the link. Featuring performances by Chamber Singers, University Chorale and Varsity Chorus.
• Oct. 22: Guest Artist: Tanya Gabrielian, piano. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. Gabrielian shot onto the international stage at the age of twenty with back-to-back victories in the Scottish International Piano Competition and Aram Khachaturyan International Piano Competition. In addition to the traditional concert stage, she is passionate about inspiring new generations of musicians and music lovers in diverse settings, dedicated to community engagement, education and activism through art.
• Oct. 23: Faculty Artists: Karen Becker, cello, and Hye-Won Hwang, dance. "Rhythm of Peace-Movement for Change." 7:30 p.m. Sheldon Museum of Art's Great Hall. Free and open to the public. A collaboration between Becker and Hwang, they will be joined by Taiji Practitioner Roz Hussin and Visual Artist Geraldine Dobos, as well as Glenn Korff School of Music cello and dance students.
• Oct. 23: Vocal Jazz Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public.
• Oct. 26: Guest Artist: Bob Sheppard with University Jazz Faculty. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. Presented in partnership with the University Saxophone Studio and Chateau Development, L.L.C.
• Oct. 27-28: Carnage in the Corn: An SAFD Sanctioned Stage Combat Workshop. Temple Building. Registration is $125 ($100 if you register by Sept. 30). For information and to register, visit https://carnageinthecorn.weebly.com/.
• Oct. 29: Nebraska Trombone Ensemble. 7 p.m. Westminster Presbyterian Church, 2110 Sheridan Blvd. Free and open to the public. The Nebraska Trombone Ensemble, comprised of trombone students in the Glenn Korff School of Music, will perform works by composers ranging from Morten Lauridsen to Frank Zappa and Derek Bourgeois.
• Oct. 31: Hixson-Lied Visiting Scholar Lecture: Jeff Fontana. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Fontana is associate professor and Harry E. Smith Distinguished Teaching Professor in Art History at Austin College in Sherman, Texas, where he is currently chair of the Art and Art History Department. An Italian Renaissance scholar by training, he focuses on the career of the painter Federico Barocci, on whose work he has published articles and acted as an exhibition consultant.