Feb. 13, 2003

Theatrix leaps into spring with Boy Gets Girl

The Theatrix season opens its spring 2003 installment with Boy Gets Girl, which will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 20, 21 and 22, with a special show at 10:30 p.m. Feb. 21. Performances are at the Studio Theatre, third floor of the Temple Building. Tickets are $5 at the door.

Boy Gets Girl is one of the first plays by author Rebecca Gilman and explores the trials and tribulations of the dating world in modern times. Steve Barth directs this drama.

White performs

School of Music faculty artist Rusty White, bass, performs at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 13 in Kimball Recital Hall.

UNL faculty members Nicole Narboni, piano, Darryl White, trumpet, and David Neely, violin, will accompany White. The last two pieces of the evening will be jazz offerings, including the premiere of a work by Rusty White.

This event is free and open to the public.

Kuss Quartet at Sheldon series

A concert by the award-winning Kuss Quartet will mark the return of the Lincoln Friends of Chamber Music series to the Sheldon Art Gallery auditorium at 8 p.m. March 7.

A pre-concert lecture at 7:30 p.m. by David Breckbill, professor of music at Doane College, will acquaint listeners with the concert repertoire. The performance will be followed by a reception for audience and artists in the Great Hall of the gallery.

Tickets for the concert are $25 for adults and $5 for students and may be bought at the door.

For more information, call 435-5454.

Variety of quilts on campus in February

The UNL International Quilt Study Center has several new exhibitions this month at galleries around campus.

"At the Crossing: Midwestern Amish Crib Quilts and the Intersection of Cultures," the first public exhibition of the Sara Miller Amish crib quilt collection, will be at the Great Plains Art Collection Feb. 14 through Feb. 15, 2004. It includes quilts that range from the early 1800s through the present. The Great Plains Art Collection, at Hewit Place at 1155 Q St., is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and 1:30-5 p.m. Sundays.

"New Design/New Dynamics: Quilt Concepts for the 21st Century" is a juried, multimedia exhibition of work created by college students from around the nation and presents a dramatic new view of the quilt concept. It will be on display in the Rotunda Gallery at the Nebraska Union from Feb. 19 to March 14. It is open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Other exhibitions sponsored by the quilt study center:

• "Radka Donnell: The Work of Touch," Feb. 14 to March 7 at the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, Home Economics Building.
• "Wild by Design: Two Hundred Years of Innovation and Artistry in American Quilts," at the newly re-opened Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.

The International Quilt Study Center will sponsor its first biennial symposium, "Wild By Design," Feb. 27, 28 and March 1 on campus. For information, about the symposium of other exhibitions, call 472-6549 or visit <http://quiltstudy.unl.edu>.

Oboe soloist to play

The UNL School of Music will present guest artist Nicholas Daniel, oboe, at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21 in the Kimball Recital Hall.

Daniel will take part in the annual Double Reed Day festival on the UNL campus. He also will conduct master classes with UNL School of Music oboe students.

Daniel has been appointed artistic director of both the Osnabruck Festival in Germany and the Isle of Wight International Oboe Competition. He has won the BBC's Young Musician of the Year Competition.

This event is free and open to the public.

Reception honors gift for Holocaust book series

The University of Nebraska Press has launched a new book series, the English-language edition of Comprehensive History of the Holocaust, to be co-published with Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem. This publication is made possible by a gift from the Ike and Roz Friedman Family Foundation of Omaha to the University of Nebraska Foundation.

The family will be recognized for their gift in support of this series at a reception at 4:30 p.m. Feb. 17 at the Great Plains Art Collection at the Christlieb Gallery, 1155 Q St. The reception is free and open to the public.

The Comprehensive History of the Holocaust series will consist of at least 15 books to be published over the next decade in English, Hebrew and several other languages. It will present studies of how the Holocaust unfolded throughout Europe, and each volume will be written by a scholar drawn from an international team of historians.

The editor of the English-language edition is Alan E. Steinweis, Rosenberg Associate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at UNL. The editorial board also includes Doris Bergen of the University of Notre Dame, Peter Hayes of Northwestern University, Susannah Heschel of Dartmouth College, and Michael Marrus of the University of Toronto.

The first book in the series is The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939 ­March 1942 by historian Christopher R. Browning of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It is scheduled to be released in spring 2004, and it studies why and how the Nazis decided to murder Europe's Jewish population. Subsequent volumes will examine how this decision affected Jewish communities throughout Europe and how those communities responded.

Isadore "Ike" Friedman was born in Omaha in 1924 to parents who fled to the United States from Russia in 1923. After serving in World War II, Friedman returned to Omaha, went to work for his father, who was part-owner of the Nebraska Furniture Mart, and married Rosalie "Roz" Wasserman. In 1947 Louis Friedman sold his interest in the Furniture Mart and purchased Borsheim's Fine Jewelry.