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great adventures in music, theater
and dance by internationally fam
ous performers and ensembles.
The series will open September
13 with another spectacular per
formance by the Kronos Quartet,
the string ensemble that shatters
the illusions and conventions of
traditional string-quartet perform
ance with its often astounding
interpretations of 20th century
masterpieces by Bartok and Glass
as well as its unorthodox transcrip
tions of such works as "Purple
Haze" and "Blizzard."
The World on State season is
divided into four performing arts
groupings: dance, music, theater
and variety. The series offers sub
scribers the delight of formulating
their own personalized season of
four or more events. Season tickets
(for four or more events only) may
be ordered through the mail only
until August 23. A discount of 10
percent off ticket price if four or
more different events are ordered,
20 percent off ticket price if eight or
more different events are ordered,
will be given to all season subscrib
ters. Individual tickets for each
event cannot be purchased until a
few weeks before each event.
The dance offerings for the sea
son include the following companies:
O Momix: formed by Pilobolus
original Moses Pendleton and named
for a brand of cattle feed, this group
has been described as being "every
thing from Merce Cunningham to
Monty Python."
O Sankai Juku: the dance com
pany of Japanese Butoh Art that left
the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival
thunderstruck is best known as The
Ones Who Hang From Buildings.
O Ballet Eddy Toussaint: another
ensemble that made such an im
pression on Lincolnites (during the
1985-86 season) that it is returning
by popular demand, this company
offers a unique and glorious blend
ing of beauty, youth, originality and
impeccable technique in contem
porary and traditional dance.
O Mark Morris Dance Company:
founder Mark Morris called by The
New York, "the most talked-about
and most commissioned young cho
reographer in modem dance," brings
a company that is playful, outra
geious, lyrical, wacky and sensuous.
O David Parsons Dance Com
pany: David Parsons, a star with
Paul Taylor, has choreographed for
American Ballet Theatre, Feld Ballet,
Israel's Bat Sheva Company and
many others. His "Caught," pres
ented by the North Carolina Dance
Theater, captivated Kimball aud
iences in November 1986.
Music offerings include:
O Nathaniel Rosen, cellist, who
thrilled a full house at Kimball sev
eral years ago, will be back to per
form works of Bach, Bernstein,
Brahms, deFalla, Tchaikovsky and
others.
Kimball Preview
O The Central Philharmonic
Orchestra of China: submerged dur
ing the Cultural Revolution, this
orchestra has risen to join the ranks
of world-class orchestras and were
seen in this country on the Academy-Award-winning
documentary "From
Mao to Mozart."
O Garrick Ohlsson, pianist, is
one of the shining lights of interna
tional piano performers. There is
hardly a corner of the globe that
Ohlsson has missed enchanting
audiences with his sparkling virtuo
sity. O The Israel Chamber Orchestra
has delighted audiences all over the
world since its founding in 1965.
Yoav Talmi, musical director since
1984, will lead the orchestra in
works that include Haydn's humor
ous Farewell Symphony and Barber's
stunning Adagio for Strings.
Two special events are scheduled
within the season. UNL graduate
Barbara Hendricks, who made her
debut at the Met this past fall and
has conquered audiences in all of
the major opera houses in Europe,
will present a benefit concert for
the UNL School of Music. One of the
great musical triumvirates of this
century (Frans Brueggen, recorder
and Baroque flute; Gustav Leon
hardt, harpsichord; and Anner
Bylsma, violoncello) will perform
music of J.S. Bach and several Ital
ian composters of the early Baroque
period.
O The Missouri Repertory Thea
tre will bring Tennessee Williams'
American classic "Glass Menagerie"
under the direction of its new artis
tic director George Keathley, ac
claimed interpreter of Williams.
O The Guthrie Theater will
present a rich, riveting adaptation
of the harrowing novel "Franken
stein." In the variety category:
O The Flying Karamazov Broth
ers those five magical men who
juggle puns about Hamlet and the
laws of physics as glibly as they
juggle torches, swords, axes and
tenpins.
O Branford Marsalis, whose big,
warm sounds on tenor and soprano
sax have jazz buffs flipping (and
whose brother is the. well-known
trumpeter of Grammy tame), will
illustrate the new jazz traditions
with the Branford Marsalis Quartet.
O NEXUS, a group of five musi
cians who play an incredible array
of percussion instruments from
around the world, will weave a mus
ical spell that will transport you
back to the dawn of creation and
forward to the day after next year.
O The Ramsey Lewis Jazz Trio
needs no qualification, having sold
over 47 million record albums.
O The Woody Herman and The
Thundering Herd will raise the raf
ters with his powerful, pounding
pulse and his gentle, swinging
sounds.
Call the Kimball Box Office at
472-3375 between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m.
for the season brochure, which lists
information about many of the extra
events such as related family dis
covery events and Saloon Seminars.
Special rebroadcasts, auction coincide onNETV this week
This week as the annual "Great
NPTV Auction '87" begins its 14th year
of selling thousands of items of mer
chandise and services to the highest
bidder, the Nebraska ETV Network also
rebroadcasts a dance spectacular, two
locally produced specials dealing with
Native Americans and their Black Hills
heritage, and a four-part landmark
documentary about the Holocaust.
The exuberant Alvin Ailey American
Dance Theater is featured in three
major works from its repertory in "Three
by Three," a rebroadcast "Dance in
America" on "Great Performances"
Sunday at 2 p.m.
Ailey's classic "Blues Suite," a ser-'
ies of 10 dances set to traditional
blues, recalls Ailey's Southern past and
tells of lost loves and the frustration of
life in a Texas backwater town.
Bill T. Jones' "Fever Swamp" is set to
new-wave rock and disco music and
celebrates the bonding on men work
ing together, while Donald McKayle's
"Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder," set to
traditional folk music, features Donna
Wood and reflects the loneliness and
despair of men working on a chain gang
who dream about the women in their
lives.
The question of who owns this darkly
beautiful wilderness is the subject of
"The Black Hills: Who Owns Them," a
two-part series produced by Nebraska
Educational Television Council for
Higher Education and airing Sunday at
3 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
Vintage photographs and commen
tary from experts on both sides of the
question are presented during the two
30-minute porgrams, "The Treaty of
1868" and "Black Hills Claim."
To the Lakota Sioux, the Black Hills
represent sacred and religious ground
which has been taken from them; the
U.S. government considers it land fairly
claimed and settled.
The first program, "The Treaty of
1868," presents a historical overview of
the pertinent treaties between the U.S.
government and the Lakota the 1951
Fort Laramie Treaty which restricted
Indian movements and opened the
Oregon Trail and the 1868 Fort Laramie
Treaty which created the Great Sioux
Reservation and gave lifetime owner
ship of the Black Hills to the Lakota.
In 1887, the U.S. government nulli
fied both treaties, claiming violations
on both the white and Native American
sides of the treaty.
Through interviews and historical
data, "The Treaty of 1868" emphasizes
the basic philosophical and social dif
ferences between the two societies
which resulted in the misunderstand
ings of the treaty.
The week of April 26 has been estab
lished as "Days of Commemoration for
Victims of the Holocaust." ETV partici
pates in that remembrance through the
broadcast of a special 9 12 film,
"Shoah," by director Claude Lanzmann.
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