January 10, 1997
Genealogy Examined on 'Ancestors'
Ancestors, a new ten-part series focusing on the impact that connecting
with ancestors has on individuals and families, airs on Sunday afternoons
at 12:30 p.m. on the Nebraska ETV Network.
During each of the half-hour programs, powerful stories of people whose
lives have been changed through family history research are followed by
conversations with experts who give practical instruction on how viewers
can begin searching for their own roots.
Series hosts Jim and Terry Willard, amateur genealogists, introduce the
topic of each episode, which consists of two components: a
"mini-documentary"
and a "how-to" segment.
January episodes include the premiere episode "Getting
Started,"
followed by "Looking at Home" Jan. 12, "Gathering Family
Stories" Jan. 19 and "The Paper Trail" on Jan. 26.
Other episodes in the series include "Libraries and Archives,"
"Census and Military Records," "African American
Research,"
"Your Medical Heritage," "High-Tech Help" and
"Leaving
a Legacy."
Pictured above is Deborah Fountain, left, and her daughter, Brishette,
active
members of the California African American Genealogical Society.
'Umbrellas of Cherbourg' at Ross Theater
Jacques Demy's greatest hit, the bittersweet, candy-colored romance which
launched Catherine Deneuve (shown at right) in 1964, was an instance of
industrial-strength, heavily-sweetened Pop Art. Lovingly restored to its
original glory, the
utterly unique and entirely wonderful The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
opens at the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater on Jan. 16.
Siskel and Ebert give The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, "Two big
thumbs
up!" They continue, "If you don't have (a theater) in your town
playing it . . . build one!"
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg will show on Jan. 16, 17 and 19. There
are no screenings on Jan. 18. Screenings are on Thursday and Friday at 7
and 9 p.m. and on Sunday at 3, 5, 7 and 9 p.m. Admission is $6; $5 for
students;
and $4 for senior citizens, children, and members of the Friends of the
Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater.
The presentation of this program at the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater is
made possible, in part, with the support of the Nebraska Arts Council, a
state agency.
Maya Fedchenko (right) as Queen of the Willis in Act II of
Giselle.
Moscow Festival Ballet to Perform 'Giselle'
The 50-member Moscow Festival Ballet will bring a full-length ballet in
two acts to the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 12th and Q streets at 8
p.m., Friday and Saturday, Jan. 24 and 25 when the company performs the
classic gem, Giselle.
The two Lied Center performances are among the first American
presentations
for the company, founded in 1989 and touring the United States for the
first
time this season. Since its inception, the company has completed two
tours
of Europe with extraordinary receptions in Italy, France, Spain, Germany
and the Netherlands. Two tours of the United Kingdom-often to sell-out
crowds-
have resulted in re-engagements.
Giselle is a romantic ballet first seen in Moscow in 1843, and
will
bring the high athletic artistry, magnificent scenery and wispy, flowing
floor-length costumes to the Lied Center to help inaugurate the new year.
The ballet depicts the story of a young peasant girl, Giselle, who is in
love with a faithless nobleman whom she believes to be a simple
villager.
The company performs under the direction of artistic director Sergei
Radchenko,
the former principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet. Radchenko founded the
Moscow Festival Ballet to realize his vision of a company that would
bring
together the highest classical elements of the great Bolshoi and Kirov
ballet
companies in an independent new company within the framework of Russian
classic ballet.
Leading dancers from across Russia and stars of the Bolshoi and Kirov
ballets,
including prima ballerina Lubov Kunakova of the Kirov, have helped forge
an exciting new company staging new productions of timeless classics such
as Giselle.
The Moscow Festival Ballet also has performed in Turkey at the
Istanbul
Festival and Greece at the Athens Festival and last year completed a
two-month
tour of Japan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Tickets for Giselle are $38, $34 and $30. Students with valid
identification
from UNL, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Doane College and youth 18 and
under
pay half price. The Lied Center box office is open for walk-in sales
weekdays
from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and 90 minutes before the performances. Phone
orders may be placed by calling 472-4747 or 1-800-432-3231.
Jim Williams, Nebraska correspondent for Dance Magazine, will be
the featured speaker at an educational pre-performance talk in the Lied
Center's Steinhart Room scheduled 55 minutes and 30 minutes before the 8
p.m. performances.
Lied Center programming is supported by Friends of Lied and grants from
the National Endowment for the Arts, Mid-America Arts Alliance, and the
Nebraska Arts Council. All events in the Lied Center are made possible
entirely
or in part by the Lied Performance Fund, which has been established in
memory
of Ernst F. Lied and his parents, Ernst M. and Ida K. Lied.
Murder-Mystery
Chris Cooper (right) stars as Sam Deeds, a second generation border town
sheriff
in John Sayles' murder-mystery Lone Star, which is showing Friday
through Sunday (Jan. 10-12) at the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater.
Orchestra Honors 200th Birthday of Schubert
Kim Cook, an internationally recognized cellist and Lincoln native, will
perform with the Lincoln Symphony at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 21 in Kimball Recital
Hall. She will be the featured soloist in Franz Josef Haydn's Cello
Concerto
in D Major. The Lincoln Symphony concert program also includes
Haydn's
Symphony No. 101 in D Major "The Clock" and Franz
Schubert's
Unfinished Symphony.
Cook holds a master's degree in music from Yale University and is
associate
professor of music at Penn State University. During the last year she
made
her debut at Carnegie Recital Hall.
In keeping with its anniversary theme, the symphony will perform Franz
Schubert's
Unfinished Symphony to honor the 200th anniversary of the
composer's
birth on Jan. 31. It is one of his best-known works. Schubert completed
two movements and sketched out a third movement but never orchestrated
the
final section.
Limited seating is available by calling the Lincoln Symphony at
474-5610.
Sheldon Art Gallery on the World Wide Web
Late last year The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery became the first Nebraska
art museum to open a site on the World Wide Web - address: URL
http://sheldon.unl.edu/.
The site allows browsers to explore an impressive selection of images
from
the Sheldon's remarkable collection of 20th-century American art and
discover
valuable interpretive information about the art and artists, and why they
are among the most significant works in the country. The site also
includes
a map of the Sheldon Sculpture Garden.
Kunc Featured in Women's Caucus Exhibit
The Nebraska Women's Caucus for Art announces that six members have had
work accepted for the national exhibition called "Carving the Forces
of Change: Celebrating Women in the Arts." This exhibition will be
in Chicago at the Artemisia Gallery through Jan. 25 and marks the Women's
Caucus for Art's 25th anniversary national exhibition.
Artists whose work was selected from a pool of more than 1,000 entries
include:
1997 NWCA president Marjorie Mikasen, Lincoln; past NWCA presidents Sue
Knight, Omaha, and Karen Kunc, Avoca, also associate professor, UNL
Department
of Art & Art History; board member Deborah Murphy, Omaha; Eddith
Buis,
Omaha; and Rebecca Williams, Bennet.
Grace Abbott (right)
Abbott Sisters Profiled on Nebraska Public Radio
In the late 1800s, two sisters were born in the small village of Grand
Island.
Their destiny would lead them to Chicago and then Washington, D.C. The
life
and work of Edith and Grace Abbott are documented in a new three-part
series
airing at 9:10 p.m., Monday through Wednesday, Jan. 20-22, on the
statewide
Nebraska Public Radio Network.
My Sister & Comrade is a marvelous adventure story, according
to producer John Sorenson, a Grand Island native who now lives and works
in New York City. "This is a tale of two little girls who grew up on
the wild Western frontier and who went to fight together for women's
votes,
immigrants' rights and children's health."
Sorenson, who grew up just two blocks from Grace Abbott Park in Grand
Island,
has collected more than 6,000 documents and traveled hundreds of miles to
research the Abbott sisters. His project includes a 300-page book, the
radio
series and a documentary for television.
Grace Abbott was the first woman nominated to be a presidential cabinet
member, Secretary of Labor in the Herbert Hoover administration, and the
first American sent to represent the United States at the League of
Nations.
Her work helped put an end to some of the most grotesque abuses of child
labor in the United States. She ran the very first federal social welfare
program in American history. And her ideas and actions were vital sources
of the Federal Emergency Relief effort during the Depression, the Social
Security Act and the creation of UNICEF.
Edith Abbott helped to create a new profession - the profession of social
work. As the first woman to become dean of an American university
graduate
school, she prepared several generations of social servants to assume
what
she called "the grave responsibility of interfering with the lives
of human beings."
My Sister & Comrade will air on all stations of the Nebraska
Public Radio Network which includes Alliance/91.1 FM; Bassett/90.3 FM;
Chadron/91.9
FM; Columbus/90.3 FM; Hastings/89.1 FM; Lexington/88.7 FM; Merriman/91.5
FM; Norfolk/89.3 FM and North Platte/91.7 FM. NPRN originates from
KUCV/90.9
FM in Lincoln at the Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Center on
the
campus of UNL.
NPRN is a service of Nebraska Educational Telecommunications. The
complete
program schedule for NPRN is available on NET's World Wide Web site at
http://net.unl.edu.
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