September 13, 1996
Wallace and Gromit Invade the Ross
Wallace and Gromit: The Best of Aardman Animation, a 75-minute
retrospective
of work from the British studio, is indubitably the most fun in town. The
Aardman artists employ plasticine models in stop-motion. The highlight is
three shorts by Nick Park, who has made history by winning three Oscars,
having been nominated for four. Brief, bright, unpretentious, and graced
with the kind of immaculate gags that we associate with the slapstick of
the 1920s, Park's movies have a style that you can recognize within half
a second, something that not many other filmmakers of today can
claim.
Wallace and Gromit: The Best of Aardman Animation is showing on
Sept.
26 through Sept. 29, and on Oct. 3 through Oct. 5. Check the
Scarlet
calendar for times.
Sunday
Recital
Paul Barnes, assistant professor of piano at UNL, will perform a
lecture
and recital, "Liszt and the Cross: Music as Sacrament in the B Minor
Sonata," at 8 p.m. Sept. 15 in Kimball Recital Hall. The performance
is part of the School of Music's Faculty Recital Series, and is free and
open to the public. Other upcoming performances include a free recital by
Karen Becker, cello, and David Neely, violin, at 3 p.m. Sept. 22 in
Kimball
Hall. They will perform works by Boccherini, Gliere, Martinu and
Ravel.
Monk, Music and Movement at the Lied
Meredith Monk, an "original among originals" who embraces an
interdisciplinary
approach to music and dance, will bring her brand of avant-garde to
Kimball
Recital Hall at 8 p.m. Sept. 27.
Meredith Monk and Ensemble will weave a tapestry crossing barriers
between
mediums, mixing music and movement in her latest production, The
Politics
of Quiet. The UNL performance, the American premiere, resembles an
oratorio
- a musical composition for voices and instruments narrating a story
without
costumes or dramatic action.
A cutting-edge contemporary, Monk based the work on Nebraska author Willa
Cather's writings, Buddhist texts and meditations on technology and the
dawn of the new millennium.
"The Politics of Quiet is about community and how we're in
danger
of losing it," Monk says.
A pioneer in "extended vocal technique," Monk has a three
octave
vocal range and has been acclaimed as a major force in the performing
arts.
A fourth generation singer, she is a composer, singer, filmmaker,
director
and choreographer.
Her 90-minute work will be performed with an ethnically diverse cast of
10 singers and dancers, two instrumentalists and two children.
A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, her career spans 30 years. She has
created more than 80 music, theater, dance and film works. Last year she
was awarded a "genius" grant - the John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur
Fellowship. Previously, she was honored with two Guggenheim Fellowships
and a Brandeis Creative Arts Award and numerous others.
Tickets are $28 or $24; and half price for youth 18 and under or UNL,
Wesleyan
and Doane students with valid identification. The Lied Center box office
is open for walk-in sales weekdays from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and 60
minutes
before the performance. Phone orders may be placed by calling 472-4747 or
1-800-432-3231.
Weiss Sculpture and Dance Exhibit at Rall Gallery
Absence and Presence, a show by UNL professor and textile artist
Wendy Weiss, will be on exhibit at the Doane College Rall Gallery through
Sept. 30. A public reception for the artist, is at 7 p.m. Sept. 14 and
will
incorporate an 8 p.m. interpretive dance by Joan Stone of Lawrence, Kan.
Her performance, "Mrs. Live Alone," was inspired by Omaha
author
Tillie Olsen and is responsive to the imagery of Weiss' art which
features
gauzy weavings in natural colors, golds and purples, and sculptures. The
exhibit includes Weiss' Wheel of Fortune: Women in the War Zone,
a large wooden wheel and woven panel sculpture featuring images of
suffering
women and children.
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