Damage AssessedPreliminary assessment of Man in the Open Air indicates it may take $15,000 to $20,000 to repair damage caused when the statue was taken from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden. The 53-inch tall sculpture, heisted during post-Orange Bowl revelry Jan. 2, was recovered on East Campus Jan. 7 by University Police. Investigation continues into the theft. A significant tear in the bronze where the man's arm attaches to the tree trunk will require work (see photo at right). The tree is pulled out of shape and the base of the sculpture is warped. |
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Insurance will cover costs of repairs. In the photo to the right, "Man" is lying on a piece of cardboard during a press briefing Jan. 8 at the Sheldon Gallery. The sculpture by Elie Nadelman is considered the gallery's signature pieces. |
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It's literally Theatre Without Strings. These larger-than-life puppets tell a terrific story. But make no mistake - while these puppets aren't Kermit the Frog or Lambchop they will entrance audience members of all ages.
Presented as part of the Lied Center for Performing Arts' Family Series, Montreal's Théâtre Sans Fil presents "The Crown of Destiny" at 8 p.m. Jan. 23 and again at 2 p.m. Jan. 24.
Derived from an artistic tradition inspired by Javanese shadow puppets and Japanese Bunraku puppetry, the giants of Théâtre Sans Fil are manipulated by black-clad puppeteers who can be seen by audience members. Depending on the scene, five to 12 puppeteers operate 25 to 75 puppets at a time.
But the suspension of belief is key: at the premiere performance of "The Crown of Destiny"at the Scottish International Children's Festival, audiences sat entranced in utter silence until the end, when a clattering of applause confirmed that children of all ages recognize true artistry. Enhanced by theatrical gadgetry including lasers, computer-controlled lighting, complex set changes and Dolby-surround sound, the show's success hinges on a terrific story.
Young Katie, the daughter of Scottish composer Tom Macbaird, asks her father to tell her a story of magic and sorcery.
He invents a fantastic epic that transports Katie from her Montreal apartment to ancient Scotland, where she finds herself in the castle courtyard of Clan Douglas, who is engaged in a war with a family cousin. Cruel Prince William is willing to do anything to possess the Crown of Destiny held by Clan Douglas.
Katie, mistaken for a gnome because of her 20th century clothing, meets her ancestor, the wandering minstrel Tom. Together, they help Princess Morag, the heir to the Clan, flee with the crown. Along the way, they encounter peril and danger, including Gorla the Giant and Lir, a treacherous sea monster. A blue falcon and some colorful elves also figure into the story, whose happy ending is assured.
Founded in Montreal, Canada, in 1971, Théâtre Sans Fil is considered one of the world's best puppet troupes. When puppeteers were creating the puppets for the first show, the intention was to make them three to four feet tall. Suddenly, craftsman realized their creations would be six feet tall or taller. From that "mistake," the company's particular technique developed.
The company presented "The Hobbitt" at the Lied Center in 1993.
Tickets for the 8 p.m. Jan. 23 and 2 p.m. Jan. 24 performances are $9 for adults and $4 for children and youth 18 and under. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska Wesleyan University and Doane College students with proper identification can purchase tickets for $4.50.
Call the Lied Box Office at (402) 472-4747 or toll free, 1 (800) 432-3231 for ticket availability. 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.
Pre-performance talks begin at 55 minutes and 30 minutes before the performance in the Lied Steinhart room. These identical 15-minute talks, presented by Kit Voorhees, director of the Arts Are Basic program and education coordinator for the University of Nebraska College of Fine and Performing Arts, are presented as part of the Lied's ongoing outreach program.
This presentation of Théâtre Sans Fil is made possible in part with generous support from Union Bank and Trust Co. This event is part of the Lied Center's Family Series, which was created with generous support of the Lied Foundation Trust to present events that can be enjoyed by people of all ages at more affordable prices.
Lied Center programming is supported by the Friends of Lied and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; the 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.
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Artist's Landscape, Photographs by Todd Webb will be on view Jan. 19 - Feb. 28 at the Great Plains Art Collection, 215 Love Library. The exhibition consists of 39 black and white photographs taken by photographer Todd Webb, a notable artistic photographer and friend of O'Keefe's for many years. This traveling exhibit organized by Curatorial Assistance of Pasadena, Calif., is sponsored by the Friends of th Center for Great Plains Studies.
Webb's photographs of O'Keeffe in New Mexico present an intimate and insightful view of one artist's way of life through the eyes of another. This selection of images span nearly 30 years, the earliest from 1955 and the most recent from 1981. Through his sensitive photographic approach, we see the landscape, the qualities of texture and light, as well as many of the artifacts which are the subject of O'Keeffe's compositions. Webb unobtrusively captures some of the unusual natural and human made forms and unique climatic conditions of New Mexico which represent physical elements that greatly influenced O'Keeffe's painting, drawing and sculptures.
Sculptures of American Indians of the Southwest and other related subjects from the Christlieb Collection have also been selected to complement the photography on view.
This special exhibit is free and open to the public at the Great Plains Art Collection. Normal hours open: Monday-Friday, 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Sunday, 1:30 - 5 p.m.
Pianist Garrick Ohlsson remembers every note of the first piano concert he ever attended. The great Arthur Rubinstein performed an all-Chopin concert at Carnegie Hall. Ohlsson, then age 9, was entranced. He set his sights on a career as a concert pianist. The music world has been enriched by his decision.
Ohlsson, now considered the world's foremost interpreter of the works of Frederic Chopin, plays at 8 p.m. Jan. 20, at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.
In 1995 and 1996, Ohlsson presented a six-concert series devoted exclusively to Chopin's works for solo piano. Presented in Alice Tully Hall under the auspices of New York's Lincoln Center, the concerts earned praise from music critics and audiences.
Ohlsson's reputation as a piano prodigy was solidified early in his career with first-prize honors in 1966 at the Busoni Competition and 1968 at the Montreal Piano Competition. But it was his 1970 triumph as gold medalist of the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Poland, that brought worldwide recognition as one of the premier pianists of his generation.
"Chopin is the litmus test," he told the New York Times in 1995. "If you can play Chopin, you can play the piano. If you can do the Chopin etudes reasonably, you have no need to fear almost anything else that's ever been written. He's kind of the Rosetta stone for pianists."
Although his named is artistically linked with Chopin, Ohlsson has a wide and eclectic repertoire that includes the masterworks of Beethoven and Brahms as well as 20th century works by Busoni, Prokofiev, Ravel, Rachmaninoff and Bartok. His concerto repertoire alone features more than 70 works for piano and orchestra. A prolific recording artist, Ohlsson has twice been nominated for Grammy awards.
Ohlsson was born in 1948 in White Plains, N.Y. He began piano training at age 8, attended the Westchester Conservatory of Music and at 13, entered The Juilliard School where Rubintein himself was one of his mentors. In high school, Ohlsson demonstrated extraordinary aptitude for mathematics and languages (in addition to English, he speaks Italian, Spanish, French, German, Swedish and Polish) but the piano proved to spark the most passion.
His program for the Lied Center, (subject to change) includes the Sonata No. 18 in E-flat Major, Opus 31, No. 3 by Beethoven; Sonata No. 8 in B-Flat Major, Opus 84 by Prokofiev; and four works by Chopin: Allegro de Concert in A Major, Opus 46; Tarantelle in A-flat Major, Opus 43; Nocturne in C minor, Opus 48, No. 1; and Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat minor, Opus 31.
Tickets for the 8 p.m. Jan. 20 performance are $26, $22 and $18. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska Wesleyan University and Doane College students and youth 18 and younger with proper identification can purchase tickets for half-price. Target "Treatseats" discount coupons are available at participating Target stores.
Call the Lied Box Office at (402) 472-4747 or toll free, 1 (800) 432-3231 for ticket availability. 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.
Pre-performance talks begin at 55 minutes and 30 minutes before the performance in the Lied Steinhart room. These identical 15-minute talks, presented by Ann Chang-Barnes, assistant professor of piano in the University of Nebraska School of Music, are presented as part of the Lied's ongoing outreach and education program.
This is a Ruth K. Seacrest Memorial Concert.
Lied Center programming is supported by the Friends of Lied and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; the 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.
A chance encounter on a Sunday afternoon in Queens unexpectedly evolves into a compelling psychological mystery and unconventional love story in Jonathan Nossiter's film Sunday, opening at the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater on Jan. 22.
Also showing is a short feature, Shadow, by David A. Davidson and Maria I. Bernhard, in which an agoraphobic woman struggles to define the boundaries between reality and illusion in her mind and backyard.
Sunday and Shadow are showing Jan. 22-24 and Jan. 29 - Feb. 1 at 7 and 9:15 p.m. on Thursdays and Fridays; at 1, 3:15, 7 and 9:15 p.m. on Saturdays; and at 2:30, 4:45, 7 and 9:15 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.
The UNL Studio art faculty present their work in all media in the UNL Studio Art Faculty Exhibition, which opens Jan. 19 and runs through Feb. 19 in the
Gallery of the Department of Art and Art History, located in 102 Richards Hall.
An opening reception will be from 5-7 p.m. Jan. 19 in the gallery. The reception is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
UNL's art faculty, who work regularly in their studios, represent the finest painters, sculptors, ceramists, graphic designers, printmakers, photographers and artists in the region. This exhibition gives students the chance to see their professors as artists, and gives everyone the chance to see their distinguished, exciting and vibrant art.
For more information, call the Department of Art and Art History at (402) 472-2631.
Guest pianist Justin Kolb performs in concert at 8 p.m.Jan. 30 in Westbrook Music Building, room 119. Admission to the concert presented by the School of Music, is free.
A proponent of American music, Kolb frequently performs the music of Joan Tower, Tania Leon, Samuel Barber, Peter Schickele and Aaron Copland. His performances include premieres of compositions of Robert Starer, Paul Alan Levi, and Jan Bach. Kolb's recent program of Starer's solo piano music in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall was hailed by The New York Times as, "A Piano Recital Program With A Difference." Kolb was a featured soloist at The American Liszt Society's annual festival in 1997 performing Liszt's transcription of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. He has also been engaged to perform at the third annual Romantic Arts Festival in Hamilton, Ontario. In April of 1998 Kolb will make his New York City orchestral debut with the Jupiter Symphony performing the First Piano Concerto of Alexander Glazunov.
Kolb is frequently engaged by colleges and universities to present his interactive lecture titled Know the Score: Inspiration and Motivation for Surviving in the Business of Music. Travels with a Piano Player and How To Avoid Becoming a Nerd are two musical enrichment programs presented by Kolb to grades K-12. These music appreciation and student motivation programs are popular in the private and public school sectors. His musical impact in all areas prompted DePaul University to present him with the 1994 Distinguished Alumni Award.
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