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The audience at chamber concerts is
"almost exclusively university," Potter
said.
Because the group does rely on season
ticket income to support its programs,
Potter said there is little likelihood that
students will be given a special cost
reduction in season ticket prices. He said
this is especially true if the performances
continued to be held at Sheldon, where
the seating and thus number of tickets
sold-is so limited.
The Nebraska Union, through the
Musical Fine Arts Committee, will bring
in the First Chamber Dance Company
Feb. 22-23 for a two-day residency. The
group will conduct dance classes, present
a free lecture-demonstration and a
performance at 8 p.m. Feb. 23 in
Kimball. The final performance will have
an admission charge, but everything else
is free.
The union also will sponsor a Herbie
Hancock jazz concert 8 p.m. Feb. 14.
Preceding the Hancock concert will be
Vic Lewis & Friends at 7 p.m.
The administration is helping fund
Cultural Affairs Committee's Artist
Series. Concerts this semester include
(jina Bachauer, piano, on Feb. 15, and
Jess Thomas, tenor, on April 17.
Ron Bowlin, committee coordinator,
said they also helped bring the Guthrie
Theater and St. Louis Symphony to
campus.
Moran said the UNL administration
helps finance the Artist Series, Artists in
Residence and Weekend With Music.
Moran, acting director of the School
of Music, says neither operas nor concerts
other than student-faculty performances
are financed by the school.
"The School of Music Is operating on a
shoestring budget, which is used
exclusively for teaching activities. The
opera is a do or die effort based on how
many people we can get in to Kimball,"
he said.
Partial funding for concerts sometimes
is obtained through groups including the
Nebraska Arts Council, the American
Symphony Orchestra League or the
National Endowment for the Arts, but all
money must be applied for and any funds
received are "just a matter of luck,"
Moran said.
According to Bill Wallis, a visiting
music professor, the arts suffer on the
state level.
"The arts are not supported in
proportion to the generosity Nebraskans
show in other areas," he said.
Both Wallis and Moran praised UNL
President D.V. Varner's leadership and
efforts to improve the amount and
quality of cultural arts brought to the
university. However, Moran said UNL
"still lags far behind most other major
Midwestern universities" in promoting
arts.
"We want to promote the musical fine
arts series with major attractions like the
ballet and perhaps a Braodway musical or
opera," he said.
The thing that hurts UNL fine arts the
most is lack of a formalized fee structure,
Moran added. In many universities, a
portion of student fees is allocated to
programs that bring fine arts to campus.
Wallis said he agrees UNL has come a
long way in promoting fine arts, but
notes that Lincoln is way behind Omaha
as far as community culture is concerned.
"Lincoln does not have the arts
program it should have," he said. "Omaha
has a brilliant community theater of very
high quality and one of the most budding
opera associations in the Midwest and in
America in its Civic Opera Company.
Wallis said Lincoln
potential and too little
appropriation of local
community theater."
"has all the
direction and
talent in its
"Omahans support the arts in a big,
positive way. As a whole, however,
Lincolnites offer their support
grudgingly-if at all," he said.
Wallis, who has lived in Nebraska three
and one-half years, said he thinks the
differing responses result from attitudes
of civic leadership. But he contended he
"was not familiar enough with the
politics of local government to know
why" the disparity exists between
Nebraska's two largest cities.
Wallis didn't exactly agree that
Nebraska is a cultural wasteland. "The
cluture is there-especially in University
areas-but you have to look for it," he
said.
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Student vocal and instrumental
recitals are held Wednesday
afternoons at 3:30 at Kimball. The
following events also are scheduled
for the semester:
FEBRUARY
20-Faculty Recital - Emanuel
Wish now, violin
22- Symphonic Band Concert
27- Faculty Recital - Wesley
Reist, clarinet; Vernon Forbes,
trombone
20-Faculty Recital Larry Lusk,
piano
22- Collegiate Band Concert
23- Faculty String Quartet
Concert
24 University Singers Concert
30-Madrigal Singers and Clarinet
Choir concert
APRIL
MAY
MARCH
1- University Orchestra Senior
Soloists Concert
9-Sinfonia Jaw Concert
19-Composeri Recital
2- Visiting Artist in Residence
Zara Nelsova, cello
3- Faculty Recital Gary Echols,
bassoon; Robert O'Boyle, oboe
5 University Orchestra Spring
Concert
6 - Brass Ensemble and Brass Choir
Concert
9- Faculty Recital Nebraska
Brass and Woodwind Quintets
10- Faculty Recital Harvey
Hinshaw, piano
12- Symphonic Band Concert
19-Varsity Glee Club and Women's
Chorale Concert
3-Collegiate Band Concert
4,5-Opera Workshop Scenes
6- Verdi's Requiem - Orchestra,
Oratorio Choir, Soloists
(Coliseum) 3 p.m.
7- Visiting Artists - Grant
Johannesen, piano; Zara
Nelsova, cello
8 - Faculty Recital - Clarence
Cooper, French horn.'
All concerts and recitals are free
except as indicated. All evening
performances at 8 in Kimball
Recital Hall unless otherwise
indicated.
