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• 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. This performance contains nudity, adult language, content and themes. 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.
• April 1-5: MFA Thesis Exhibition Round 1. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. General gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 12:30-4:30 p.m. The first MFA Thesis Exhibition features the work of Lindsey Day and Nicholas Sheldon. Closing reception is April 5 from 6-8 p.m. in the gallery. The artists will give a lecture on April 5 from 5-6 p.m. in Brace Laboratory Rm. 206.
• April 1: Brass Ensembles Performance. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general/$3 students and seniors, available at the door. The Large Brass Ensembles will perform a concert that will span a great deal of music history, featuring something old by Heinrich Isaac and W. A. Mozart, something new with two premiere works by current UNL students Sam Babe and Alaina Blaker, and several pieces in between. This concert showcases the UNL Trumpet Ensemble, the Husker Horn Choir and the UNL Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble.
• April 2: Guitar Ensemble Performance. 8:45 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. The program showcases a variety of styles performed in different settings that include solo, duo, quartet, and quintet.
• April 5: Flyover New Music Series. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general/$3 students and seniors, available at the door. The Flyover New Music Series is the new music series from the composition studio at the Glenn Korff School of Music. The series is administered and overseen by composition faculty and students.
• April 8-12: MFA Thesis Exhibition Round 2. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. General gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 12:30-4:30 p.m. The second MFA Thesis Exhibition features the work of Kat Cox and Mallory Trecaso. Closing reception is April 12 from 6-8 p.m. in the gallery. The artists will give a lecture on April 12 from 5-6 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15.
• April 8: Women's Choir Festival. All-day. Kimball Recital Hall. The festival concludes with a concert at 7 p.m. that features the participants from the workshop.
• April 9: Saxophone Quartets Performance. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. Presented by the Glenn Korff School of Music's Saxophone Studio.
• April 11-14: Theatrix presents "This is War." Performances are at 7:30 p.m. April 11-13 and 2 p.m. on April 14. Lab Theatre, 3rd floor of Temple Building. Tickets are $7 and available in advance at https://go.unl.edu/theatretix or at the door (subject to availability). "This is War" contains mature content and violent themes that may not be suitable for all audiences. Directed by senior Theatre Directing and Management major Christa Retka.
• April 11: Hixson-Lied Visiting Scholar Lecture by Mary Pardo. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Pardo is an associate professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. She specializes in Italian Renaissance art and art criticism, and has published essays on Giotto, Leonardo da Vinci, and Titian. To complete her Old Master Hit Parade, her upcoming publication is on Michelangelo and Hieronymus Bosch. She is especially interested in the comic side of serious art.
• April 12 & 14: UNL Opera presents the musical "Violet." Performances are April 12 at 7:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. on April 14. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 130. Free admission, but a ticket is required. Tickets will be available starting April 1 at noon at https://go.unl.edu/p35q. Winner of the Drama Critics’ Circle Award and Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical when it premiered Off-Broadway in 1997, and then revived on Broadway in 2014 to critical acclaim, "Violet" is an inspiring musical with a spirited score by Tony-winning composer Jeanine Tesori ("Caroline, or Change;" "Thoroughly Modern Millie;" "Shrek;" "Fun Home"). "Violet" features a cast of UNL's award-winning voice and theatre performance students. Directed by Alisa Belflower with music direction shared by Louis Claussen.
• April 13: Chamber Singers & All-Collegiate Choir Performance. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general/$3 students and seniors, available at the door. This performance will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the day of the concert for the link.
• April 14: Big Red Singers & Vocal Jazz Ensemble Performance. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general/$3 students and seniors, available at the door.
• April 15-19: MFA Thesis Exhibition Round 3. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. General gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 12:30-4:30 p.m. The third MFA Thesis Exhibition features the work of Iren Tete and Erik White. Closing reception is April 19 from 6-8 p.m. in the gallery. The artists will give a lecture on April 19 from 5-6 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15.
• April 15: UNL/LPS String Project Performance. 7 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. The UNL/LPS String Project is a joint effort between the Glenn Korff School of Music and Lincoln Public Schools. It is an after-school teacher-training program that gives children the opportunity to begin playing a stringed instrument before they start playing in their school.
• April 16: Percussion Ensemble Performance. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general/$3 students and seniors, available at the door. This performance will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the day of the concert for the link.
• April 17: ChamberFest Performance. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public.
• April 17: Symphonic Band Performance. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general/$3 students and seniors, available at the door. This performance will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the day of the concert for the link.
• April 18: Campus Orchestra Performance. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general/$3 students and seniors, available at the door.
• April 19-20: Honors Chamberfest Performance. 7:30 p.m. each night. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public.
• April 20: Nebraska Rep: The Spirit of '68. 7:30 p.m. Temple Building. Tickets: $19.68 and available at https://go.unl.edu/1968. Celebrate The Nebraska Repertory Theatre’s 50th Anniversary at this special event. Enjoy hors d’oeuvres, drinks and a spectacle performance featuring live music, large-scale puppetry and stilt dancing.
• April 22: Wind Ensemble Performance. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general/$3 students and seniors, available at the door.
• April 23: University Singers Performance. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center Church, 320 N. 16th St. Free and open to the public.
• April 24: Jazz Ensembles Performance. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general/$3 students and seniors, available at the door.
• April 25: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture by Alexander Ross. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Ross is represented by David Nolan Gallery in New York. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, an Art Production Fund Fellowship, Residency at the Musée Claude Monet in Giverny, France, and an Artist Fellowship Grant from the Tesuque Foundation. Ross’s work has been included in major group exhibitions including “Remote Viewing” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and an exhibition called “Our Grotesque” which was curated by Robert Storr for the 2004 Santa Fe Biennial. Storr also wrote a feature article about Ross’s work that appeared in ArtForum magazine in 2003.
• April 25: Campus Band Performance. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general/$3 students and seniors, available at the door. The Campus Band is the university’s largest concert band.
• April 25-28: Evenings of Dance. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. April 25-27 and 2 p.m. April 28. Lied Center's Johnny Carson Theater. Tickets: $12 general admission, $10 UNL faculty/staff, and $7 students/seniors, available at the door one hour before the performance.
• April 26: Musical Theatre Showcase. 5 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. If you love musical theatre, the Musical Theatre Showcase night is not to be missed. Scenes from both classic and more contemporary musicals will be performed in a free performance by Nebraska’s award-winning musical theatre students.
• April 27: Lincoln Friends of Chamber Music Concert. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets available through the Lied Center Box Office at http://tickets.liedcenter.org/1645/1651. Lincoln Friends of Chamber Music and the Glenn Korff School of Music will join forces in a concert to present the world premiere of “Time and the River.” Composed by Kurt Knecht (UNL DMA 2009), the work is inspired by and incorporates the images from the Platte Basin Timelapse project of Michael Forsberg and Michael Farrell. “Time and the River” will be conducted by Dr. Knecht and performed by nine members of the Glenn Korff School of Music—The Moran Woodwind Quintet: John Bailey, flute; Alan Mattingly, Horn; Diane Barger, clarinet; Jeffrey McCray, bassoon; William McMullen, oboe; David Neely, violin; Clark Potter, viola; Karen Becker, cello and Hans Sturm, bass. The program will include performance of additional chamber works by the GKSOM faculty.
• April 28: Afternoon of Choirs. 3 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general/$3 students and seniors, available at the door. This performance will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the day of the concert for the link. Featuring the Varsity Chorus (Men) and University Chorale (Women).
• April 28: Symphony Orchestra Performance. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general/$3 students and seniors, available at the door. This performance will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the day of the concert for the link.