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The Lincoln Choral Artists will conclude their 32nd concert season with a performance of Handel's touching and dramatic oratorio SAUL at Saint Paul United Methodist Church, Sunday, May 19 at 3:00. The Lied Center’s 2013-14 Season is full of performance goodness! Also, UNL Cather scholar Melissa Home...
NET Radio’s Friday Live travels to the Sheldon Museum of Art to celebrate the Philip Johnson-designed building’s 50th anniversary. Guests include Sheldon Director Daniel Veneciano, Greg Nosan, and Laura Reznicek, who explain the significance of SHELDON: THE NAKED MUSEUM, the May exhibition of the bu...
On May 5th, William Stibor, Ed Polochick, and Damon Thomas Lee preview the last concert this season by Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra. 100 years ago, Stravinsky set the classical music and ballet world on fire with his avant-garde masterpiece THE RITE OF SPRING. Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra celebrates...
This week on the April 26 program, THE LINCOLN EARLY MUSIC CONSORT and Dulces Voces present a concert called “Tourdion,” a springtime concert of early songs and dances at First Christian Church, 16th & K Streets in Lincoln on Saturday, April 27 at 730 pm. Steve Lewis chats up the next Kearney Co...
On APril 19, William Stibor and Miles Hoffman, from the American Chamber Players, preview their Sheldon Friends of Chamber Music concert at the Sheldon Museum of Art, Saturday, April 20th. Miles and the gang then travel to Hasting College for a three day residency and concerts with the Hastings Symp...
On the April 12 program,William Stibor talks to Hal France, who returns to Opera Omaha to conduct Bartok’s psychological musical drama, BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE, with opera legend and Kansas native, Sam Ramey in the title role. Friday, April 19th at 7:30 pm, and Sunday, April 21st at 2:00 pm. LAST MASS AT...
Filmmaker Julie Dash’s drops by Friday Live, in conjunction with her 3-day visit to UNL and Lincoln. Hot off a Lied Center gig with his early music ensemble, THE HUTCHINS CONSORT, founder Joe McNalley drops by Friday Live before heading to Kearney for a performance in connection with the GREAT PLAIN...
Kristin Ross is the final speaker for the year’s Humanities on the Edge series at UNL. NYU Professor of Comparative Literature, she chats with Friday Live about her presentation, COMMUNAL LUXURY, in which she reexamines the 1871 Paris Communards ideas on education and the status of the artist in the...
The Lincoln Arts Council’s 2013 Community Supported Art Project opens for artist applications March 22nd. Thursday, March 28 hear UNL Faculty artists, Hans Sturm, bass, and Tom Larson, piano. Pete Stibor, director of Nebraska’s premiere Barbershop ensemble, The Pathfinder Chorus, drops by Friday L...
Northwestern University Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies, E. Patrick Johnson, offers a synopsis of his lecture/performance for UNL’s HUMANITIES ON THE EDGE speaker series, "GOING HOME AIN'T ALWAYS EASY: Performance and Ethics in the Black Gay South." Lincoln’s Symphony...
The Flatwater Shakespeare Company’s free Shakespeare in Lincoln Parks every summer has been a smashing success, and to keep it going this summer, it’s hosting an IDES OF MARCH GALA, March 13th at the Rococo Theatre in Lincoln. Besides dinner, the evening will feature Shakespeare-inspired music and s...
On the March 1 program, William Stibor has these previews...VOICES OF LIGHT is the next Arts for the Soul performance series at First Presbyterian in Lincoln, Sunday, March 3. In partnership with the Hildegard Center for the Arts and their Heroes Among Us project, the concert combines music and the...
Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra continues its season with RUSSIAN ROMANTICS, Saturday, Feb. 23rd at the Lied Center. Maestro Edward Polochick leads LSO in the intensely lyrical Nocturne by Borodin, Tchaikovsky’s intensely yearning "Pathetique" Symphony No. 6, and Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony…which i...
The UNL School of Music presents the regional premiere of a breathtaking new adaptation of Leonard Bernstein’s CANDIDE by Nebraska native and Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerman. Director Alisa Belflower previews the 4-performance run, Feb. 21- 24 at Kimball Recital Hall.
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Pianist MARK MARKHAM dazzled audiences last season in performance with Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra. He returns for a special fundraising recital for LSO, at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 10th in the Sheldon Museum of Art Abbott Auditorium. Barbara Zach tells us all about the event. Telluride Bluegrass Fe...
The Tada Theatre in Lincoln celebrates 1960s girl-power with the hippest show around: SHOUT! The Mod Musical. February 7-March 3. Tada brings back the beautiful birds and smashing sounds that made England swing in the 1960s with songs that made Dusty Springfield, Lulu, Petula Clark, and Cilla Black...
Every Friday beginning Jan. 25, NET Television presents SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED, a unique series of six films combining history, biography, performances, new analyses, and the personal passion of each host: Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi, Trevor Nunn, Joely Richardson, and David Tennant. UNL...
Film director Patrick Wang previews his new film at The Ross in Lincoln, Friday, January 18. IN THE FAMILY explores the struggle of loss between biological and chosen families as they navigate moral, ethical and legal issues rising from within and without the family dynamic. The Museum of Nebraska...
The Nebraska Chamber Players gear up for the 2nd half of the season with two concerts at the NET Studios in Lincoln, Friday, Jan.18 and a Sunday matinee on the 20th. Becky Van de Bogart previews the diverse program featuring winds, strings and percussion. The Midwest Theater in Scottsbluff hosts a...
ON MERLIN'S ISLE is the theme for the St. David's Welsh Society’s annual 12TH NIGHT REVELS, Sunday, Jan. 6 at St. David's Episcopal Church in Lincoln. The Angels Theatre Company presents ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST January 11-13, 17-20, 24-27 at the Haymarket Theatre in Lincoln’s Historic Hayma...