Mattea, McFerrin are highlights of 1992-93 Lied season
By Shannon Uehling
Senior Editor
The 1992-93 season promises to
be a busy one for the Lied Center for
Performing Arts.
With 52 scheduled performances
on the main stage alone, the Lied
Center, located at 12th and R Streets,
is a Lincoln resource for cultural
entertainment.
Highlighting this year’s season are
shows such as the return perform
ances of“Les Miscrablcs’’and Bobby
McFcrrin, and a performance by
country vocalist Kathy Mattca.
The Artists of the Lied Festival
opens Oct. 17. This is the largest
festival of its kind in the region and
features special performances and
events.
University of Nebraska and Ne
braska Wesleyan students are entitled
to half-price tickets to all events ex
cept those listed above, but “Les
Miscrables” tickets arc available to
students for $5 off the regular price.
Tickets will be available for indi
vidual sale Monday.
•The season opener, “The Incom
parable Red Stars Red Army Chorus
and Dance Ensemble,” is the first of
52 main-stage performances on Sept.
16. The 130-member ensemble brings
its music, choreography and costumes
to Lincoln from the Commonwealth
of Independent Slates during its first
North American tour.
• On Sept. 26, Pat Methany, virtu
oso guitarist, composer and producer,
will present a concert featuring music
from his new album.
• Popular country vocalist Kathy
Matlca, winner of two Best Female
Country Vocal Performance Grammy
Awards, will perform Oct. 11 on a
special “Country Sunday.” Mallea is
known for such songs as “Where Have
You Been.”
• “From the Towers of the Moon,”
a newly commissioned creation from
the Minnesota Opera that tells the
Japanese fable of the Shining Prin
cess, will open the Lied Center’s third
annual Artists of the Lied Festival
Oct. 17.
• On Ocl. 23 and 27, the American
String Quartet will perform the first
of its scries of Kimball Recital Hall
concerts.
• “An Evening with Claire Bloom,”
two different theatrical performances
about the way women arc seen by
Shakespeare and Bronte, will be pre
sented Ocl. 24 and 25.
•The Hubbard Street Dance Com
pany, a jazz-dance company with a
ballet base, will perform Oct. 30 and
31.
• The world-renowned Stars of
the Bolshoi Ballet will perform Nov.
4 and 5. The performances will fea
ture Prima Ballerina Assoluta Ekater
ina Maximova and her partner, Pre
mier Danseur and leading Bolshoi
choreographer Vladimir Vasiliev.
•The Royal Philharmonic Orches
tra will close the Artists of the Lied
Festival with a concert under the di
rection of Vladimir Ashkenazy on
Nov. 12.
•The American Indian Dance Thca
ler, the first company to present
American Indian culture in a profes
sional theatrical environment, will
perform Nov. 20.
•Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,”
featuring Victorian costumes and sets,
will be presented in partnership with
University Theatre Dec. 10 and 13.
•The Minneapolis Children’s Thea
ter will present Rudyard Kipling’s
classic story about a boy raised by
wolves, “The Jungle Book,” Jan. 8
and 9.
•Coming to Lincoln Jan. 14 and
15 is the New York production of
“Fiddler on the Roof,” a Tony Award
winning musical.
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under the direction of Philippe Entre
mont, premier conductor and soloist,
will perform Jan. 22.
•Reluming to the Lied Jan. 23 is
Bobby MeFerrin, with his unusual
styles of composition.
•The Ballet Folclorico Nacional
dc Mexico will bring its folk dance
and musical heritage to Lincoln Feb.
10. A preperformance event, El Mejor,
will feature the foods and cultural
heritage of Mexico.
•The St. Louis Symphony Orches
tra, under the direction of acclaimed
director and conductor Leonard Slat
kin, will perform Feb. 13. The or
chestra is the second oldest in the
country.
•The San Francisco-based travel
ing troupe, the Pickle Family Circus,
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will bring its juggling, tumbling and
balancing performers to the Lied Feb.
20 and 21.
•Soprano Leontyne Price will per
form Feb. 28. Her repertoire could
range from spirituals to classical arias.
•On March 6 and 7, the widely
acclaimed Mark Morris will lead his
dance company in a choreographed
dance presentation.
•“Lcs Miscrablcs” is scheduled
for a return engagement March 9
through 14. The play, based on Victor
Hugo’s novel of the same name, tells
the tale of the turbulent 19th century
in France.
•On March 21, Montreal's The
atre Sans Fil (Theater Without Strings)
will present J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The
Hobbit,” a story of trolls and dwarfs.
•On April 13, the Lied presents
the evening performance of Isaac Stem,
Cho-Liang Lin, Jaime Laredo, Mi
chael Tree, Yo-Yo Ma and Sharon
Robinson, some of the country’slx>sl
classical performers.
•Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins
brings his four decades of jazz expe
rience to Lincoln April 16.
•Pilobolus, a dance group that
formed in a college dance class, will
perform April 23 and 24.
Groups of 25 or more may ask for
special group rates by contacting the
Lied Center box office at 472-4700.
Information is also available about
the center’s “build-your-own” pack
ages.
Box office hours arc between 11
a.m. and 5 p.m.
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