The School of Music will present guest artists, The Kobayashi/Gray Duo in recital at 8 p.m. Nov. 18 in Kimball Recital Hall. Admission is free.
The duo consists of violinist Laura Kobayashi and pianist Susan Keith Gray. In addition to performing works from the standard repertoire, they have been discovering and premiering works by 19th and 20th-Century women composers.
The Duo has toured South America and the West Indies, presenting recitals, lectures, and masterclasses as USIA Artistic Ambassadors and in 1995 they were awarded second prize in the Contemporary Record Society's National Competition for Performing Artists.
Recently, the Duo was elected to the Touring Artist Roster of the Nebraska and South Dakota Touring Arts Councils through 1998.
Kobayashi has performed extensively throughout the United States and Germany as a soloist and chamber musician. Since 1995 she has been on the faculty at the Univesity of Nebraska at Omaha where she teaches violin and viola, chamber music and string pedagogy and is the director of the School for Strings program at the university. Kobayashi spends her summers performing at the Hot Springs Music Festival as well as serving on the faculty of the Brevard Music Center.
Pianist Gray has performed with the Spartanburg and Savannah Symphony Orchestras, the Virginia Highlands Chamber Orchestra, and as a professional collaborative pianist. Since 1995 she has been on the faculty at the University of South Dakota where she teaches solo piano, class piano, pedagogy and collaborative piano and performs with the resident Rawlins Piano Trio. With this trio, she recently recorded four American piano trios for release on CD in 1997 and during the 1996-97 concert season, is playing the complete cycle of Beethoven piano trios.
Actor Christopher Lloyd is the first lecturer of the newly established Ron and Chris Harris Lectureships.
Lloyd will meet with three theater classes and deliver a lecture for university theater students on Nov. 14. He will also attend the chancellor's pre-game activities on Nov. 15 and attend the Nebraska-Iowa State football game.
The Ron and Chris Harris Lectureship program brings outstanding scholars in the field of theater, video, film or media to the College of Fine and Performing Arts each academic year.
"The Harris Lectureships give us the marvelous opportunity to bring world-class performers to conduct seminars and workshops with students in theatre arts and dance," said Richard Durst, dean of the College of Fine and Performing Arts. "These 'real world' contacts are invaluable to their academic training, and with his broad experience Christopher Lloyd is a perfect person to inaugurate these lectureships. He brings visibility, talent, and humor along with this wealth of experience."
Among his film and television credits are the Rev. Jim from Taxi, Dr. Emmett Brown from the Back to the Future trilogy and Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? He has captivated both critics and audiences alike with his winning portrayals of quirky, off-beat characters.
Lloyd is filming My Favorite Martian for Walt Disney Productions with Jeff Daniels, Elizabeth Hurley and Daryl Hannah, which is scheduled for release in 1998. His other performing credits include a wide variety of motion picture, television and theatrical roles.
Canada's Alcan Quartet in Concert Nov. 14The Alcan Quartet, one of Canada's leading chamber ensembles, performs at 8 p.m. Nov. 14 in the auditorium of the Sheldon Art Gallery. Established in 1989, the quartet bears the name of its most famous benefactor, the Alcan Canada aluminum company.
Presented by the Lincoln Friends of Chamber Music, the group will perform Schubert's Quartet in B-flat, Op. 168; Debussy's Quartet in G Minor; and "This is My Voice," by Kelly-Marie Murphy.
Ensemble members are Brett Molzan and Nathalie Camus, violins; Luc Beauchemin, viola, and David Ellis, cello.
John Bailey, professor of flute, will give a pre-performance talk about 30 minutes before curtain and a reception for the performers follows the concert.
The Concert Choir, Oratorio Chorus, and University Singers will present a choral program at 8 p.m. Nov. 16 in Kimball Hall. The program will commemorate and celebrate noteworthy anniversaries of the composers Ockeghem, Schubert, Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn and Johannes Brahms.
James Hejduk and Master of Music student Kevin Boesiger will conduct. The concert is free and open to the public.
The University Singers will open the concert with the "Lament on the Death of Ockeghem" by his foremost student, Josquin des Pres. Ockeghem died in November, 1497. The women of the Concert Choir and Oratorio Chorus will perform Franz Schubert's setting of Psalm 23 followed by the men of those groups singing Schubert's "Ständchen." Schubert was born in 1797.
Both groups will join to sing Felix Mendelssohn's eight-part a cappella work "Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen," which many music lovers will recognize as "For he shall give his angels charge over thee," from Mendelssohn's beloved oratorio "Elijah." Both Mendelssohn and his sister, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel died in 1847. The University Singers will perform the second of Fanny Mendelssohn's "Gartenlieder" on a text of von Eichendorf.
The University Singers will continue with what is perhaps the most famous of the Brahms motets, "Schaffe in mir," Op. 29, #2. The Wednesday Singers from Concert Choir will perform several selections from the "Liebeslieder Walzer, Op. 52," joined by pianist Kim Rehtus. The Concert Choir and Oratorio Chorus will conclude the program with the "Geistliches Lied" of Brahms under the direction of Boesiger.
The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden presents an exhibition of works of art by the internationally recognized artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The exhibition is organized collaboratively by the Richmond Art Museum and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art and runs until Jan. 4.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, will present a public lecture at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 1 in the Sheldon Auditorium. In "Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Works in Progress, The Gates, Project for Central Park, New York City, and Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River, Colo.," the complex process and creative undertakings of these upcoming projects will be discussed. After the lecture, Christo and Jeanne-Claude will be available to sign a selection of their books, which will be available for purchase in the Sheldon Gallery's Gift Shop. The presentation and a reception is free and open to the public.
The Sheldon Gallery will also sponsor a series of video screenings documenting the major projects of Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Four separate videos will be presented from noon to 1 p.m. each Tuesday and Wednesday in November in the Sheldon Gallery's conference room. The public is invited to bring a brown bag lunch to the screenings.
The schedule of video presentations is:
Probably best known for their projects involving the use of fabric on a very large scale, the Christos have assembled an impressive resume of architectural projects in the course of their 37 year career. Most notable among their past projects are Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, 1972-76; Wrapped Walk Ways, Loose Park, Kansas City, Missouri, 1977-78; Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980-83; The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Paris, 1975-85; The Umbrellas, Japan - USA, 1984-91; and Wrapped Reichstag, Project for Berlin, 1995. These projects are complex and the process of completing one is very similar to the detailed and lengthy process of constructing a building. Many people become involved in different aspects of each project, ranging from legal hearings to actual construction.
This traveling exhibition is drawn from the collection of Thomas Golden, a retired California businessman. Golden has worked with Christo and Jeanne-Claude for 21 years and has assembled the largest private collection of Christo works in the United States. The collection consists of unique original preparatory art works and two original packages, a wrapped stapler, and a bouquet of artificial carnations. The balance of the collection consists of dye-transfer photographs by Wolfgang Volz of Christo and Jeanne-Claude realized projects, and lithographs and serigraphs of their realized and unrealized projects.
Five Nebraska college choirs will perform at the l2th annual Nebraska Inter-Collegiate Choral Festival at 5 p.m. Nov. 15 in O'Donnell Auditorium at Nebraska Wesleyan University. This event is sponsored by the Nebraska Choral Directors Association. It is free and open to the public.
Choral ensembles will each sing 15-minute segments and then join together in a massed performance of Ron Nelson's festive anthem, "Lift up your heads," under the direction of Simon Carrington, founding member of the internationally renowned King's Singers with whom he performed for 25 years. Carrington is director of choral activities at the University of Kansas.
Participating in this concert will be the Nebraska Wesleyan University Choir under the direction of William A. Wyman, the University (of Nebraska) Singers conducted by James Hejduk, the NU University Chorale led by Carolee Curtright, the UNO Concert Choir directed by Z. Randall Stroope, and the Doane College Choir, directed by Larry Monson.
The program will feature a wide variety of music from all ages. Each group will have had a masterclass with Carrington that afternoon as well as rehearse with him for the massed work.
The work of ceramic artist Eddie Dominguez of Santa Fe, N.M., will be displayed through Nov. 25 in the Gallery of the Department of Art & Art History, 102 Richards Hall.
The exhibition of ceramic sculpture and mixed media art, "Eddie Dominguez: Cosas" features his flamboyant artworks that reflect his Hispanic heritage and culture.
Dominguez has shown works throughout the United States. He earned an MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and his BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art.
A reception for the artist will be from 5-7 p.m. Nov. 14 in the gallery.
The Center for Great Plains Studies will bring 24 Nebraska writers to campus to read from their contibutions to the anthology "Leaning into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West."
The readings will begin at 3 p.m. Nov. 9 in the Great Plains Art Collection on the second floor of Love Library. The readings are free and open to the public and copies of "Leaning into the Wind" will be available for sale and for autographing by the authors.
"Leaning into the Wind," published by Houghton-Mifflin in June 1997, is a collection of 206 nonfiction stories and poems written by women who live in the High Plains states. The book presents Western women as a group far more diverse than the "tight-jeaned cowgirl" of narrow Western mythology, writes editor Linda Hasselstrom in her introduction. Driving cattle, pulling lambs, surviving blizzards and tornadoes - this is the hard work of the land, shared in the voices of the women who have lived to tell their stories. They also write of the joys of life on the Great Plains, from the endless starry sky of midnight visits to calving barns to the beauty of prairie roses and the bonds of people who need each other as fiercely as they need their independence.
Nebraska women who will read Nov. 9 come from communities all over the state and include farmers, innkeepers, horticulturalists, schoolteachers, professors and ranchers. Some have lived in other states and countries, some have never left the family farm or ranch, but, in the words of Shannon Dyer from Hyannis, "Now I'd never live anywhere else - life out here is real."
Dee Brown, author of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," called the anthology "a truly rich contribution to the natural literature of America."
The reading's other co-sponsors are the Nebraska Humanities Council, the UNL English department, UNL Women's Studies program, the Nebraska Wesleyan English department, Nebraska Bookstore and Prairie Schooner.
The Nov. 9 readers (including two former Nebraskans), are: Anita Lorentzen-Wells of Axtell; Grace Kyhn of Boelus; Joan Hoffman of Clearwater; Beth Gibbons of Crawford; C.L. Prater of Elgin; Shannon Dyer of Hyannis; Nellie O'Brien of Independence, Mo; Susanne George of Kearney; Terry Lee Schifferns, Kenesaw; Kathleene West, Las Cruces, N.M.; Kara DeJonge (reading the writing of the late Patti DeJonge of Hildreth), Twyla Hansen, Carolyn Johnsen, Marjorie Saiser of Lincoln; Jeanne Bartak of Long Pine; Linda Crandall of McCook; Sharon Boehmer of Newcastle; Dixie DeTuerk of Ogallala; Robyn Eden, Barbara Jessing, Kathryn Kelley, Mary Kathryn Stillwell, Janice Vierk of Omaha; and Maeann B. Jasa of Wahoo.
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