Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
to perform
The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, one of
the world's
most famous and widely recorded chamber orchestras,
will perform
at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24 the Lied Center for Performing
Arts. Joining
the ensemble will be pianist and principal guest
conductor Murray
Perahia.
For this performance the
Academy will perform "Adagio
and Fugue in C Minor" by
Mozart, "Piano Concerto No.
1 in C Major" by Beethoven,
"Brandenburg Concerto No.
5 in D Major" by Bach, and
"Symphony No. 41 in C Major"
by Mozart.
Perahia has been a concert pianist for 30 years and has performed
with the world's leading orchestras. He received a 2003 Grammy
Award for his recording of Chopin's complete Etudes.
Founded in 1959, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields was
formed as a conductorless string ensemble. Some of the Academy's
best known work was the soundtrack for the film Amadeus and their
Oscar-winning soundtrack to The English Patient.
A lecture
will begin 30 minutes before curtain in the Lied's
Steinhart
Room.
Tickets for this performance are $50/$45/$40; tickets
are
half-price for college students and those 18 and younger. Call
472-4747 for tickets.
Aquila Theatre
Company to perform 2 classics
The Aquila Theatre Company
will present Rudyard Kipling's
The Man Who Would Be King at 7:30
p.m. Nov. 4 and Shakespeare's
Othello at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 5 at the
Lied Center for Performing
Arts.
The Man Who Would Be
King tells of two ex-British Army sergeants
who plot to conquer the
mythical kingdom of Kafiristan but are
corrupted by power when they
are mistaken for gods and believe
they can rule the kingdom by
posing as religious idols.
Othello is the Shakespearean
tragedy that tells the story
of a noble Moor whose love for his
wife soon turns to tragic
mistrust and rage from an unfounded rumor
of adultery.
The Aquila Theatre Company was founded in
1991 by Peter Meineck
and has won many awards for innovative
presentations of classical
theater. The company has performed
regularly at The Shaw, Pleasance,
and Place Theatres in London and
makes frequent appearances in
Los Angeles, Boston, Philadelphia,
and Washington, D.C.
As part of its visit to Lincoln,
Aquila Theatre Company will
be participating in some classes with
local students, including
a Nov. 5 visit to a UNL Shakespeare
studies class.
Laura White, associate professor of English
at UNL, and Stephen
Buhler, UNL professor of English, will give a
lecture 30 minutes
before curtain in the Lied's Steinhart Room.
Tickets for this performance are $32; tickets are half-price
for
college students and those 18 and under. Call the Lied box
office
at 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231 for tickets.
Kiss Me, Kate opens Oct. 31 at Lied
Kiss Me, Kate, the winner of five Tony Awards in 1999, including
best musical, will be at the Lied Center for Performing Arts
Oct.
31 through Nov. 2.
Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 31, 2
and 7:30 p.m. Nov.
1 and 2 p.m. Nov. 2.
Kiss Me, Kate
by Cole Porter turns a production of Shakespeare's
The Taming of
the Shrew upside-down in this behind-the-scenes
battle of the sexes
between the show's two lead actors, who bicker
and romance their
way through the show. The production features
Tony Award-winning
costumes and score, which includes Another
Op'nin, Another Show,
Too Darn Hot, Wunderbar and Brush Up Your
Shakespeare.
Kiss Me, Kate opened Dec. 3, 1948, at the Century Theatre
and
played for 1,070 performances. The production won the first
Tony
Award for best musical ever presented. Its revival in 1999
sparked
rave reviews.
Stephen Buhler, UNL professor of English, and
Lettie Van Hemert,
producing director of the Lincoln Community
Playhouse, will give
a talk 30 minutes before curtain in the Lied's
Steinhart Room.
Tickets for this performance are $46, $40
and $36; tickets
are half-price for college students and those 18
and younger.
Call the Lied box office at 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231
for tickets.
Auction of
bikes raises $430,000
More than $430,000 was raised at the
public auction of the
Tour de Lincoln bikes Oct. 3 at Haymarket
Park.
The bikes were part of a summer public art project
across
the city. More than 13,000 people came to the event to view
all
71 bikes, and more than 5,000 people bid on bikes and watched
the event.
The proceeds from each bike will be allocated
three ways.
One-third of the money raised will go to the artist.
One-third
will go to the arts organization of the purchasers'
choice, which
can include the Lied Center or other arts offerings
through UNL,
and one-third will be used by the Lincoln Arts Council
in support
of public arts.
Purchasers may donate
their bikes to the city for placement
on trails and in parks or to
the Lincoln Public Schools. Many
bikes will be loaned through
January to be placed on the newly
designated 12th Street Arts
Corridor, between M and R streets.
Faculty work on display at gallery
An exhibition of
faculty work will be presented at the Eisentrager-Howard
Gallery in
Richards Hall.
"UNL Art Faculty Exhibition" runs
from Oct. 27 through
Nov. 20 in the Gallery, on the first floor of
Richards Hall.
An opening reception will be from 5-7 p.m. Oct. 27
in the Gallery.
The exhibition will feature a variety of
work from the studio
art faculty of the Department of Art and Art
History, including
works in ceramics, painting and drawing,
sculpture, photography,
design, printmaking and mixed media.
Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays.
Reading is Oct. 23
Author Terry Wolverton will read from her new book, Embers,
at
7:30 p.m. Oct. 23 in the Dudley Bailey Library in Andrews
Hall.
Wolverton is the author of five books. Embers is a novel-in-poems.
Insurgent Muse: life and art at the Woman's Building, a memoir
published in 2002, was the winner of the 2003 Publisher's Triangle
Judy Grahn Award and was named one of the "Best Books of
2002" by the Los Angeles Times.
The reading,
sponsored by the English Department, the Committee
for Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Concerns, and The Creative
Writing
Program, is free and open to the public. For information
call
472-8291.
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