For an updated listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://arts.unl.edu.
• Feb. 27: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture by Potter Virgil Ortiz. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. One of the most innovative potters of his time, Ortiz moves Pueblo pottery into a new era combining art, décor, fashion, video, and film. Although Ortiz has projects in varying mediums—including a newly launched jewelry line for the Smithsonian—Ortiz is first and foremost a potter.
• Feb. 28-March 3: Theatrix presents "Speech & Debate." Performances are Feb. 28 and March 1-2 at 7:30 p.m. and March 3 at 2 p.m. Lab Theatre, 3rd floor Temple Building. Tickets are $7 each and available online at https://www.unltheatretickets.com or at the door one hour prior to the performance in the Temple Building's third floor lobby (subject to availability). "Speech & Debate" contains mature content that may not be suitable for all audiences. Theatrix is a student-run theatre company that works under the umbrella of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts.
• March 1-12: Statewide Invitational. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. A reception will be held on March 8 from 6-8 p.m. in the gallery. High schools from across Nebraska nominated students to participate in this exhibition as part of the Nebraska Young Artist Awards. Jurors will select the recipients of the Nebraska Young Artist Awards. The winning work will be on display in the MEDICI Gallery from March 18-April 3.
• March 3: Faculty Lecture/Recital: Paul Barnes. 3 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. This performance will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the day of the performance for the link. Barnes's Lecture/Recital is titled “Love, Death, and Resurrection in the Musical Vision of Glass, Bond, Liszt, and Byzantine Chant." Barnes is the Marguerite Scribante Professor of Music. During the summer of 2017, Paul Barnes lost many close friends to cancer. One of the ways he processed his grief was developing this new lecture recital exploring the profound musical treatment of love and death in the music of Philip Glass, Victoria Bond, Franz Liszt, and byzantine chant. He has had the privilege of working with Philip Glass and Victoria Bond, as both composers have written multiple pieces for him, many based on byzantine chant. He has also specialized in Franz Liszt, most particularly in terms of religious symbolism in his piano music.
• March 3: Chamber Singers. 7:30 p.m. St. Mark's on the Campus, Lincoln Room, 1309 R St., in Lincoln. Free and open to the public. The Chamber Singers, directed by Marques L. A. Garrett, is the UNL’s vocal chamber ensemble.
• March 4: Vocal Jazz Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. The University’s Vocal Jazz Ensemble is a small choir, open to all members of the University community by audition. Students are instructed in jazz style, ensemble singing, lyric delivery, solos and improvisation.
• March 5: Symphonic Band. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. The Symphonic Band has the distinction of being the band program’s top symphonic ensemble. Its select mission is to provide instrumentalists with an opportunity to demonstrate and develop the techniques and musical instincts appropriate to a symphonic setting.
• March 6: Wind Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. This performance will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the day of the performance for the link. The Wind Ensemble is the university’s premiere concert band.
• March 7: Jazz Ensembles Performance. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. This performance will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the day of the performance for the link. Featuring the Big Band and Jazz Orchestra.
• March 10: Afternoon of Choirs. 3 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. This performance will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the day of the performance for the link. Features the Varsity Chorus (men) and University Chorale (women).
• March 11: Percussion Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. The Percussion Ensemble is made up of students from the percussion studio, under the direction of Dave Hall.
• March 13: Hixson-Lied Visiting Scholar Lecture: Leo G. Mazow. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Mazow is the Louise B. and J. Harwood Cochrane Curator of American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA). His book "Thomas Hart Benton and the American Sound" won the 2013 Eldredge Prize, awarded by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Mazow is presently organizing two exhibitions and accompanying publications at VMFA: Edward Hopper and the American Hotel (2019–20) and The Art of the American Guitar (2022).
• March 13: Flyover New Music Series. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. The Flyover New Music Series is the new music series from the composition studio at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Glenn Korff School of Music. It is the only concert series which students are the core of not only the music, but the production. Student volunteers compose and perform all music, organize all performances, and work on support teams for Flyover concerts.
• March 13: Moran Woodwind Quintet. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. 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. The Quintet includes: Jeffrey McCray, bassoon; Diane Barger, clarinet; John Bailey, flute; Alan Mattingly, horn; and William McMullen, oboe.
• March 14: Symphony Orchestra with Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. The program will feature highlights from Wagner's Ring Cycle.
• March 25: University of Nebraska Brass Quintet. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. This performance will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the day of the performance for the link. The Quintet includes: Scott Quackenbush, trumpet; K. Craig Bircher, trumpet; Alan Mattingly, horn; Scott Anderson, trombone; and Craig Fuller, tuba.
• March 27-April 7: Nebraska Repertory Theatre presents "Hair." Lied Center's Johnny Carson Theater. For performance times and tickets, visit http://nebraskarep.org/hair. Book and Lyrics by Gerome Ragni & James Rado. Music by Galt MacDermot. Directed by Nebraska Repertory Theatre Artistic Director Andy Park. The Rep lets the sunshine in with a fully-immersive production of the classic rock musical, Hair. 50 years after its premiere, the show continues to assault the status quo, while shining a light on the power of love over hate, peace over war, freedom over repression, and hope over despair. Overflowing with free love, buzzing with youthful energy, and pulsing with iconic rock anthems, the Age of Aquarius is back!
• March 30: Flute Day. All-day. Kimball Recital Hall. High school flutists will perform in morning master classes with John Bailey, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Larson Professor of Music (flute), and guest collegiate flutists perform in the afternoon master class. For more information, contact John Bailey at jbailey1@unl.edu.
• March 30: Midwest ClariFest. All-day. Westbrook Music Building. Celebrating its 22nd year, Midwest ClariFest at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, hosted by Dr. Diane Barger, Professor of Clarinet, is an outreach mission of the Glenn Korff School of Music’s Clarinet Studio that serves a community of state and regional clarinetists from junior high through college age, as well as teachers and band directors. Dr. Denise Gainey, Professor of Clarinet and Associate Chair at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is the featured guest artist. For more information, contact Diane Barger at dbarger1@unl.edu.