Nov. 14, 2002

Darryl White's "In the Fullness of Time."

White releases new jazz CD, will be in concert Nov. 17

By Kelly Bartling, University Communications

Fans of Darryl White's jazz will find some new twists in his new CD, "In the Fullness of Time," and hear his classical side at a faculty recital Nov. 17.

White, a UNL trumpet professor, calls his second full-length recording "more adventurous" than the first. Partly because of the instrument mix on some of the new CD's pieces, but mostly because White is doing more writing, "In the Fullness of Time" signals White's advancement to recording veteran and accomplished jazz writer.

"I'm always trying new things musically," he said. "People may know me for my jazz, but I have a love for many other styles of music that I'd like to record. I'd love to have people looking forward to seeing what I'll do next."

White will showcase his classical abilities in a faculty recital Nov. 17. The 7:30 p.m. event at Kimball Recital Hall is free and open to the public. Recital-goers will get a glimpse of his planned third recording project, a classical CD, which will include some of his own compositions.

"I wrote five of the songs on 'In the Fullness of Time,' and that's quite different for me," White said. One of the songs incorporates a bit of hip-hop/groove and some delve into free jazz. The new release became available in October.

"I always enjoy the reaction that I get when I'm performing at a club and people say 'You're a doctor where are you from?' and they're often taken aback when I say 'Nebraska.' I think that's cool."

White is a native of Ohio and lived in Chicago and Colorado, where he furthered his education. He earned a master's at Northwestern and a Ph.D. at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He's been on faculty at UNL since 1997. In addition to many performances in Lincoln, Kansas City and Denver, White is scheduled to perform at the 2003 Jazz in June festival in Lincoln.

"In the Fullness of Time" is available at amazon.com, cdbaby.com and the Lincoln Barnes & Noble bookstores.

The Righteous Brothers, well known for their hits 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'' and 'Unchained Melody,' will perform at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 26 at the Lied Center.

Righteous Brothers sing heartfelt hits

The Righteous Brothers, the music legends responsible for the popular songs "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" and "Unchained Melody," will perform at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 26 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.

For nearly 40 years, the Righteous Brothers, Billy Medley and Bobby Hatfield, have reached many fans with their style and singing, earning them status individually and together as rock 'n' roll artists. "You've Lost the Lovin' Feelin'" topped the charts in 1965 and was re-introduced to a new generation of fans in the mid-1980s when it appeared in the Tom Cruise movie Top Gun. In 1990, their re-recorded version of "Unchained Melody" was used in the movie Ghost, and it quickly hit the Top 40. After this rediscovery of their music, Medley and Hatfield joined forces again and created a new release, Reunion. It also included re-recorded versions of their other hits including "Rock and Roll Heaven" and "(You're My) Soul and Inspiration." Medley and Hatfield continue to perform around the country.

The Righteous Brothers concert appeared originally in the Lied Center schedule for Nov. 25. Tickets issued for that date will be honored for Nov. 26; new tickets are not needed. Ticket holders may exchange tickets for a different event in the 2002/03 season if they are unable to attend on Nov. 26. Tickets to be exchanged will need to be returned to the Lied Center box office by Nov. 15.

Kent Wolgamott, entertainment reporter for the Lincoln Journal Star, will speak 30 minutes before the performance in the Lied's Steinhart Room.

Tickets for this performance are $48 and $38; tickets are half price for college students and those 18 and under. For tickets, call the Lied box office at 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231.

Theatre de la Jeune Lune will perform Hamlet, Prince of Denmark at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 19 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.

Minneapolis company to perform Hamlet

An adaptation of one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies will be presented when Theatre de la Jeune Lune performs Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 19 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.

Theatre de la Jeune Lune, which means "Theater of the New Moon," describes the company's desire to find new in the old. It is dedicated to reinterpreting classic pieces and exploring different creative styles from opera to modern dance. It was founded in France in 1978. Jeune Lune settled permanently in Minneapolis in 1985, after seven years of splitting its seasons between France and the United States. In the fall of 1992, the company moved into its permanent home in Minneapolis. Jeune Lune has toured in recent years to such venues as the Yale Repertory Theater, the La Jolla Playhouse, Trinity Repertory Theatre and the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

Stephen Buhler, UNL professor of English, will give a pre-performance lecture 30 minutes before curtain in the Lied's Steinhart Room.

Tickets for this performance are $30, $25, and $20; tickets are half price for university students and those 18 and under. For tickets, call the Lied box office at 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231.

Bali to give 'urban peacock' presentation

Kavita Bali is the next artist in the fall semester Artist Diversity Residency Program. She will give a public presentation, "An Urban Peacock's Cultural Discovery; An Evening of Films, Art and Poetry with Filmmaker Kavita Bali," at 7 p.m. Nov. 14 in Room 15 of Richards Hall.

Bali moved to the United States from India in the early 1970s and was raised in upstate New York. She pursued a career in design, art and film; her films seek to find a balance between her immediate environment and a desire to discover her cultural heritage. She is founder of Urban Peacock, a global community that believes creativity and art can unify people of all cultures. She is working on developing a virtual united nations using the Internet and her skills in developing large-scaled navigational information structures. She is also writing her first feature film and providing design expertise to Silicon Valley's high-tech community.

Bali will be at UNL through Nov. 19. For more information on Bali, visit <www.urbanpeacock.com>.

Quilt center opens new mini-exhibit

The International Quilt Study Center at the Home Economics Building on East Campus is now offering a mini-exhibit, "Cast your Vote: Political Quilts from the IQSC," through Dec. 20 in the center's storage facility in room 212 of the building.

The exhibit is open to the public from 9 a.m. to noon Mondays through Wednesdays or by appointment.

For more information, call 472-6549 or visit <http://quiltstudy.unl.edu>.

NEH grant funds seminar on Romantic literature

By Tom Hancock, Arts and Sciences

Thanks to a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, UNL will offer a summer seminar in 2003 studying Romantic-era European literature. It will be led by Stephen Behrendt, (shown at right), the George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English.

The seminar will center on the Corvey Collection, an archive of more than 9,000 titles containing literary works from the Romantic period in Europe, from about 1780 to 1840.

Having the collection in microfiche form at Nebraska is one of the reasons Behrendt proposed the NEH seminar, he said. Called "Rethinking British Romantic Fiction," the seminar will last six weeks this summer. Fifteen college and university teachers from around the country will be selected to do research and learn how to present the new material to students.

The NEH grant of $108,000 will cover all costs of the six-week seminar. Many of the seminar attendees will come from teaching-intensive institutions, Behrendt said. He intends to introduce participants to lesser-known Romantic-era European writers found in the Corvey collection.

"I want to give them something they can integrate into their teaching," he said.

The seminar will put Nebraska on the map with other institutions that are offering NEH Summer Seminars in literature, such as the universities of Virginia, Notre Dame, California-Berkeley and Yale.

Behrendt became acquainted with the Corvey Collection while working as a visiting professor at Sheffield Hallam University in Sheffield, United Kingdom. When he came back to the United States, he sought to create interest in the collection among his colleagues at Nebraska.

Behrendt's work paid off when $35,000 was put together from various sources to obtain microfiche copies of the 3,300 English titles in the Corvey Collection. Those sources included the University Libraries, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Humanities Center, and the Departments of English and Modern Languages and Literatures. The cost may seem high, Behrendt said, but the university actually got a good deal: That price is less than $11 per title for books that range from scarce to extremely rare. The Friends of the Library bought the other two sections of German and French literature.

Nebraska and Harvard are the only schools that have the complete collection, and unlike the Ivy League school, Nebraska makes the collection generally available to scholars, teachers and students without restrictions, Behrendt said.

The Corvey Collection works were collected in the Castle Corvey in northern Germany by the German bibliophile the Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenberg and his English wife. The books rested in obscurity in the castle for more than a century. They were discovered in the late 1970s, Behrendt said.

"This is a coup for UNL," he said. "It's very forward-looking for the University Libraries to have gotten the collection."

About three-quarters of the Corvey Collection is fiction. It also contains poetry, drama, short thrillers and other items such as a one-title collection of British plays that contains 125 volumes.

The collection provides the most complete picture of European literature from the period. For example, it includes more than 90 percent of novels published in England between 1818 and 1829.

Works found in the Corvey Collection were part of that popular literature of the time. Many of the works tended toward the melodramatic, sensational and political, yet they reflect ideas and themes with which the era was preoccupied, Behrendt said.

"This is the best collection anywhere for a sampling of what was being published at the time," Behrendt said.

Walter Scott and Lord Byron are two famous and familiar Romantic authors. Behrendt, however, said he seeks to widen appreciation of the period by introducing scholars, teachers and students to influential women and working-class writers who have historically not been included in definitions of Romantic literature.

The Corvey Collection reflects this diversity of sources and contains rare works that may not have been read or studied since just after publication, Behrendt said.

Women were prolific and well-known writers in the Romantic era, he said. Some of the writers who will be studied in the seminar published as many as 20 novels. One writer, Barbara Hoffand, published some70 titles in a variety of genres. Most of these women have been obscured by the shadow of later male writers, some of who adapted aspects of the women's literary style and subject matter to their own use, Behrendt said.

For more info Information about the Corvey Collection at UNL can be found at <www.unl.edu/Corvey/html/I ndex.htm>.

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Hixson-Lied board OKs endowment allocations

Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts

The Hixson-Lied Advisory Board approved its first set of allocations at its Oct. 25 meeting. The board was created to review and react to requests for enhancement funding support from income of the Hixson-Lied endowment to benefit the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts and its affiliated organizations.

Approved expenditures for program support:

Specialized studio art equipment enhancement for the Department of Art and Art History. Support over a two-year period to help buy equipment to enhance the creative and scholarly work of students in all program areas. This award matches the equipment funds raised and given recently to the department by its fund-raising group, MEDICI.

Sheldon Graduate Fellowships. Matching funding for one graduate MFA studio art student from the Department of Art and Art History to serve an internship with the education and outreach coordinator at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.

Opera program enhancement. Funding over a four-year period, matched by additional funding from the School of Music, the college, Friends of Opera, grants and donors, to offer a season that includes two major productions and an outreach tour each year.

The establishment of a permanent touring company in the Department of Theatre Arts. Matching funding over a three-year period to support the creation of a permanent touring company to provide an arts experience to communities and populations throughout the state that have little or no opportunity to experience the arts. Three dedicated graduate assistant positions (two in design/technology and one in acting/directing) will be created to run the program.

Concerto commissioning project. Matching funding to support the composition of a piano concerto by a well-known composer that will be premiered in Nebraska as part of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration. A composer has been approached to write a piano concerto to be performed by School of Music Professor Paul Barnes at the Lied Center and throughout the region as part of the commemorative activities. This allocation matches funding by the Lewis and Clark Commission.

Funding support to enhance AdventureLIED. Matching funding to support the expansion of AdventureLIED, the outreach programming of the Lied Center for Performing Arts, complementing funding already in place to support the program.

Graduate assistant in arts education. Funding over a two-year period to support a graduate assistant to develop curriculum materials for arts education programs in conjunction with Lied Center projects.

Exhibition and education programming support for "Enrique Martinez-Celaya: The October Cycle, 2000-2002." Matching funding to assist with an exhibition and a weeklong residency by Cuban-American artist Enrique Martinez-Celaya. Undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, staff and other educators and community members will be able to interact with the artist in a variety of contexts.

Redesign of the Sheldon Web site. Matching funding to support the implementation of a new Web site that is accessible, easily updated and reflects the museum's new graphic identity.

Education development and outreach at the Lentz Center for Asian Culture. Funding over a two-year period to support the development and implementation of a more targeted educational outreach program for the Lentz Center.

Approved expenditures for student support:

Hixson-Lied Graduate Fellowships. Creates 32 named graduate fellowships over the next six to eight years starting in 2003-2004. Hixson-Lied funding would be added to graduate assistantship funding already provided by the university to create stipends that are nationally competitive.

Grand Island partnership awards. Continues funding support for up to a total of 16 undergraduate scholarships per year over the next six to eight years (four each in music, art, dance and theatre arts to be phased in as funds become available) in accordance with the partnership agreement established with the Grand Island Schools in the spring of 2001.

International study support. Creates an initial annual fund to provide partial support for students who are invited to study abroad.

Exceptional scholarly and creative activities support. Creates an initial annual fund to provide partial support for students who are invited to compete, perform, make presentations or present exhibitions in regional, national or international venues and programs.

Approved expenditures for faculty support:

Faculty research/creative projects. Creates an initial annual fund to provide partial support for faculty research and creative projects. Two programs will be supported: 1) Faculty Seed Grants for projects that promote a faculty member's research program or creative activity and enhance the prospects of obtaining outside, competitive support and 2) Grant-in-Aid awards for projects that promote a faculty member's research program or creative activity that may or may not enhance the prospects for obtaining outside support. Awards will be competitive.

Faculty Travel Assistance. Creates an initial annual fund to provide partial support for faculty travel associated with invitations to perform, make presentations or present exhibitions relating to their research and/or creative activities at significant regional, national or international venues and professional meetings. Awards will be competitive.

Members of the Hixson-Lied Advisory Board are John Angle, University of Nebraska Foundation President Terry Fairfield, Christina M. Hixson, Heather Jones, Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts Dean Giacomo M. Oliva, UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman, Marguerite Hallas Scribante, James Strand, Sandy Veneziano and Susan Varner Wilkins.