Manuel Neri to Present Gallery Talk at Sheldon GalleryHispanic-Americn artist Manuel Neri will conduct a public "walk-through" beginning at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 30 of the exhibition of his works on display at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. Manuel Neri: A Sculptor's Drawingsis on display until Oct. 26. The exhibition is the first comprehensive retrospective of 36 of Neri's drawings from the 1950s to the present, organized and circulated by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Augmenting the exhibition are 14 examples of Neri's figurative sculpture, drawn primarily from local private collections and the Sheldon Gallery's permanent collection. Neri's gallery talk in the exhibition space will allow visitors to hear the artist speak about his process and his work. A reception for the artist in the Sheldon Gallery's Great Hall will follow the walk-through. Neri's gallery talk and reception are sponsored by the Sheldon Forum, a special-interest patrons' group of the Nebraska Art Association. Local support for Manuel Neri: A Sculptor's Drawings has been provided by the Nebraska Art Association, a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the advancement of the visual arts in Nebraska. Additional funding has been provided by the Nebraska Arts Council. |
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The artistry of the incomparable Itzhak Perlman opens the eighth season of events at the Lied Center for Performing Arts with a Sept. 14 appearance with the Omaha Symphony Orchestra.
The Sunday concert begins at 7 p.m., an hour earlier than most Lied events.
Perlman is the pre-eminent violinist of the 1990s, perhaps of the century. Technical ease, flawless intonation and magical interpretations mark Perlman's violin virtuosity.
A winner of 15 Grammy awards, Perlman is at home in many musical styles. Beloved for his interpretations of the world's classics, his ventures into jazz, Klezmer (a Yiddish folk style) and film scores have broadened his repertoire in recent years. His collaboration with composer John Williams, and subsequent playing of the violin solos for Steven Spielberg's Holocaust drama, "Schindler's List," is one of Perlman's proudest achievements.
Perlman takes the stage with the Omaha Symphony, which is celebrating its 77th anniversary this year.
The program for the Lied concert is an all-Tchaikovsky bill of fare. Pieces include "Waltz" from Eugene Onegin; Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35; Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32; and Overture 1812, Op. 49. The latter piece has earned fame as a July 4th finale by the Boston Pops Orchestra.
Clark Potter, assistant professor of music and viola at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will deliver two 15-minute pre-performance talks beginning at 6:05 and 6:35 p.m. in the Lied Center's Steinhart Room.
Tickets for Itzhak Perlman and the Omaha Symphony Orchestra are sold out but a waiting list has been established. To be placed on the waiting list call the Lied Box Office at (402) 472-4747 or toll free, (800) 432-3231. Box Office hours are 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays. On performance weekdays, the Box Office is open from 11 a.m. through the first intermission. For evening performances on weekends, the Box Office opens at 3 p.m.
Tickets for this concert are $46, $39 and $34; half-price for University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska Wesleyan University and Doane College students and youth under 18 with proper identification.
The performance is sponsored in part by the Sheila Delaney Griffin Lied Endowment Fund.
Students from across campus from several majors will be participating in "Oklahoma!" presented in the first-ever collaborative musical between the UNL Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, the School of Music, and the Lied Center for Performing Arts.
Auditions were Aug. 27 in Howell Theatre. Students from any major were invited to participate in this campuswide production, and 37 students were selected for the cast. Rehearsals begin Oct. 27.
"I am delighted to see student participation from across the campus, as we bring back the tradition of the Kosmet Klub musical," said Richard Durst, dean of the College of Fine and Performing Arts. "We want to resurrect the excitement and the camaraderie that drew all parts of the university together, while still producing a superb evening of entertainment. The success of these auditions, with students from 12 different majors within our university, shows we're on the right track."
This collaborative production is a rebirth of the Kosmet Klub Musical, which was a campuswide event from 1912 to its demise in the early 1970s. The collaboration will likely continue in the production of a musical every other year alternating with A Christmas Carol, which the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance produces on the Lied mainstage.
"As a department, we do musicals during the academic season," said Kevin Paul Hofeditz, chairman of the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance. "But they are usually smaller and the orchestra is usually small-scale. Here, we have the opportunity to work with the best instrumentalists and performers in the School of Music in a large-scale musical."
School of Music Director Larry Mallett said it has been several years since UNL music students have been involved in a musical.
"I believe this is an important collaboration that will provide our students an accessible production and an opportunity to perform in this medium," he said. "It's valuable that our students have the experience of working and performing with their colleagues from other disciplines."
This production represents a valuable addition to the Lied's season as well.
"We have seen A Christmas Carol become a well-received, quality production over the past few years," said Charles Bethea, Lied Center executive director, "I expect that Oklahoma! will be equally successful and satisfying to our patrons."
Oklahoma! will run Dec. 11-13 at 8 p.m. and Dec. 14 at 2 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets are $22/$15 (half price for students) and are available at the Lied Center Box Office or by calling 472-4730 or toll free in Nebraska (800) 432-3231. Single tickets went on sale Aug. 25.
Support for Oklahoma! has been provided by First Bank Nebraska.
For more information, call William Shomos, director, at 472-2494.
- Kathe Andersen, Fine and Performing Arts
Five concerts by internationally acclaimed artists and ensembles mark the 1997-98 season of the Lincoln Friends of Chamber Music.
"The world of chamber music truly comes to Lincoln this year," according to Joseph Kraus, president of Lincoln Friends of Chamber Music. "This season we will present a series of five concerts by internationally acclaimed chamber ensembles from Russia, Austria, Canada, New York and Colorado.
"I'm particularly pleased that each of the ensembles represents a distinctive style and repertoire that has been recognized by rave reviews of concerts and recordings. We're continuing a tradition begun in 1964, of offering to Lincoln live performance by some of the world's best chamber music groups."
The Vienna Piano Trio opens the series on Oct. 24, with stunning examples of the trio repertoire. The youthful Alcan String Quartet from Quebec, with five CDs released, appears on Nov. 14. The Colorado String Quartet, which consists of four distinguished female performers, appears on Feb. 6. The group has appeared in more than 20 countries after having won both the Naumberg and Banff international top prizes. The virtuoso Boehm Woodwind Quintette from New York has developed a reputation for elegant and exceptionally well-blended performances. The Quintette appears on Lincoln on March 7. The season closes with the spectacular St. Petersburg String Quartet on April 4. Their performance of the Shastakovich repertoire won a Stereo Review "Best Record of the Month" in 1996.
This season marks the 33rd year of successful operation by Lincoln Friends of Chamber Music, one of the few such volunteer organizations in existence in the country. LFCM president Kraus notes, "Each year outstanding artists in our series comment that our audiences are among the most sensitive and responsive of any on their tours - a reflection both on the quality of the performances and on Lincoln audiences."
All LFCM performances begin at 8 p.m. in Sheldon Art Gallery auditorium. Season tickets at reduced prices are available in advance and individual admission tickets for each concert may be purchased at the door. For further information call 435-5454.
Greg Araki's Nowhere, which opened Sept. 11 at the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater, is a vibrantly colorful, wildly nihilistic, and lovingly perverse poem to America's beautiful, libidinous, and doomed youth. Nowhere is Araki's most accessible, sensual, and superbly entertaining movie to date.
"[Nowhere is] a surreal American Graffiti crossed with a kinky Beverly Hills 90210," writes Stephen Holden in The New York Times.
Michael Atkinson, critic for Spin, adds, "In-your-face and down-your-throat, sex and romance have never seemed so unsafe."
Kevin Thomas, critic for the Los Angeles Times, gives Nowhere 4 1/2 stars saying it is "risky and confident; Nowhere is stylized to the max - yet its emotions are real."
Also showing is a short feature, Larry Hankin's Solly's Diner, in which a street vagrant (played by Larry Hankin) turns the tables on a lunch room holdup and manages to leave a tip for breakfast.
Nowhere and Solly's Diner are showing on Sept. 11 through Sept. 14 and on Sept. 18 through Sept. 20. Screenings are at 7 and 9 p.m. on Thursdays and Fridays; at 1, 3, 7, and 9 p.m. on Saturdays; and at 3, 5, 7 and 9 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $6; $5 for students; and $4 for senior citizens, children, and members of the Friends of the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater.
Three panelists will discuss the works of photographer Peter Miller from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sept. 19 in the Great Plains Art Collection, 215 Love Library.
Miller's works are exhibited in the collection through Oct. 15 in a show called "People of the Great Plains: Photographs by Peter Miller."
Panelists for the discussion are Christine Lesiak, producer and reporter with University of Nebraska Television (NETV); Susan Horn, photographer and adjunct professor of art at Nebraska Wesleyan University; and Richard Wright, photojournalist with UNL Publications and Photography.
The discussion is free and open to the public as a brown-bag lunch program.
For information, contact the Great Plains Art Collection at 472-6220.
For more than 25 years, public television viewers have appreciated the intellect and wit of journalist Bill Moyers. He is generally regarded as "what public broadcasting is all about" by industry leaders. But Moyers is not solely a public broadcasting personality. He's known and respected in many arenas and has more than 30 Emmy Awards to show for it.
The longtime public television journalist and bestselling author will be in Lincoln on Sept. 29, to participate in a fundraising event for Nebraskans for Public Television. The public is invited to attend a benefit reception and dinner to be held at the Cornhusker Hotel in Lincoln. After dinner, Moyers will share comments, thoughts and reflections about his experiences in public broadcasting and will take questions from the audience.
Tickets for the evening with Bill Moyers are $50 per person for NPTV members and $75 per person for non-members. Tables that seat up to ten persons are available for corporations and other groups at $600 each. For more information, contact the NPTV office at (402) 472-9333, extension 217.
Moyers first came into the political journalism limelight when he served as deputy director of the Peace Corps during the Kennedy Administration and, later, as special assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson.
During his 25 years in broadcasting, he has pursued a broad spectrum of journalism topics. In addition to his many awards, a survey of television critics by Television Quarterly (the official journal of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences) placed Moyers among the 10 journalists who have had the most significant influence on television news.
Moyers was the driving force behind such public television series as Bill Moyers' Journal, A Walk Through The 20th Century, A World Of Ideas, Joseph Campbell and The Power Of Myth, Healing and the Mind and most recently, Genesis. He has been honored as "a unique voice, still seeking new frontiers in television, daring to assume that viewing audiences are willing to think and learn."
Among his bestselling books are Listening to America, Healing and the Mind, A World of Ideas I and II and Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth.
Proceeds from Moyers' appearance will go toward the production and acquisition of programming for broadcast on the Nebraska ETV Network.
The Nebraska ETV Network and its citizen support group, Nebraskans for
Public Television, are services of Nebraska Educational
Telecommunications.
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