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I Carnegie Hall band to jazz up the Lied The Carnegie Hall Jazz Band will bring a jazz-packed concert to the Lied Center for Performing Arts Saturday. The 8 pjn. concert will feature trumpets, trombones, saxophones, a piano and drums. Many jazz greats have per formed at Carnegie Hall and the band made its debut in 1992 and has toured since 1994. Musical director and trumpeter Jon Faddis will lead the band through pieces written by diverse composers such as John Coltrane, Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington and Cole Porter. “The Carnegie Hall Jazz Band is an assembly of some of the finest jazz musicians working today,” said Jennifer Wada, director of public relations at Carnegie Hall. The band specializes in playing new arrangements of classics and commissioning new works. “As a jazz ensemble, it's one of the top in the country if not in the world,” Wada said. “It conveys the Big Band from a fresh perspective.” David Sharp, director of jazz studies at UNL’s School of Music, presents two pre-performance talks in the Lied Center's Steinhart room at 7:05 and 7:30 pin. Tickets cost $32, $28 and $24, and are half price with a UNL stu dent ID. Ticket orders may be placed by calling 472-4747. —Emily Wray !■■■■■■■■■■mm UNL ROLLING STORM WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL TEAM - AT THE UNL COLISEUM OCTOBER 26 @12:00PM [OCTOBER 27 @ 10:00AM S3 ' - • ■ 1 nlnvs diversity wiguwinj lances By Liza Holtmeeer Staff Reporter .3 4 ... , 3 Audiences will have a chance to see die first national ballet established in the American tradition perform at the - Lied Center for Performing Arts to night. The American Ballet ThejrtrOyesr tablished in 1939 and origmaliycalled Ballet Theatre, will perform four pieces tonight at 8. The ABT’s early success was founded on the talent of choreogra phers such as Agnes De Mille, Jerome Robbins, Michel Fokine and Anthony Tbdor. Throughout its career, the ABT has boasted acclaimed dancers such as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Erik Bmhn, Ali cia Alonso, Maria and Marjorie Tallchief and Violette Verdy. But in 1992, saddled, with a £5,? million debt, conqiany morale was at an was a| feis jdm»tha£ the ABT received anew artistic direc tor by the name of Kevin McKenzie. McKenzie joined ABT in 1979 as a soloist and became a principal dancer the next year. He held the position un til 1991. As artistic director, McKenzie has worked to move ABT into the ranks of the top ballet companies of the world. He has said he thinks the company’s j vthrcwgh fee diversity of the ABT’s bsp-. ertoire. This diversity is best exemplified ia the ABT’s 1996 Spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House. Not only did the company perform classical bal lets such as “La Bayadere,” “Don Quixote” and“SjvanLafce,” theyalso .tonights performance include? aaihnchihe’?. “Apollo” withmusic by Sn&vinsky, McKenzie’s “TVanscenden tal Etudes” with music by Franz Liszt, fcgpes De Mille’s “Rodeo” with'mu ric by Aaron Copland and the.grand pas de deux from Act III of Ithaikovsky’s ‘The Sleeping Beauty” with Marius Petipa’s choreography adapted by Kevin MacMillan. McKenzie said that the goal of the ABT dancers is to take their audience an a journey, jtt is important for them tp act as well a? dance. ,hj: ^ is special in the wide range.of cultures represented by its dancers, The com pany attractsdancersfirom Argentina, Cuba, Spain, Brazil and Russia. Two if the company’s youngest rising stars, Paloma Herrera and Angel Corelli,' are lot from the United States. Tickets for the show are $32, $36, B40 and half price for students. Pre lerformance talks, given by private fetoce midructctfs Boband Stephanie 3iase, will begin at 7:05 and 7:30 pjn. I i ’¥r ft fSSi *mM!m i^eimpresent classics -—m- - Two classical concerts appear on the UNL School of Music’s busy scheduletfcis weekend. from “Ciavierflbung Part III” by Johann Sebastian Bach while guest art ist The Flint Hills Trio performs cham ber music. skills on Sunday at 8 p.m. Hie free concert is at Cornerstone, 640 N. 16th i St. Ritchie said that students studying European eulturp ad the Baroque era “fthink that a concert such as this, cm an organ such as Cornerstone’s, can help the listener feel a direct connec tion with the European and Germanic cjdture of the mid-18th century,” he said. Ritchie will make comments at the beginning of the concert, giving infor nation about the collection issued in 1739. “It was relatively late in Bach’s life, is his first published organ music,” Ritchie said. “At that point, he was frustrated svith employers for various reasons so ie published to reach a wider audi Please see MUSIC on 11 ADVERT,SEMENT igiii ' Vs Varsity ■.-dfegjjz==M -— ' y°0“fT^/y fOOTBAU/V VOUIYBAU/V WOMIN'S AT BAyigR.WACOj .. VS. KANSAS AT TEXAS TECH,T-; -« -> - SOCCfS/Vg r «srl:«.^r» ' Memorial Stadium, - LLubbock A . at Texas Tech, y0*®1* , l PM 7 PM Lubbock SOCCtt/V’ » K“ 1:00 PM AT BAYLOR, WACO, 3 PM 'J \ U ‘-'V; .\- . ‘ - ’ ^ . V •■■'•jS rs.-_ ■ ':-V»r - . —-v . .. _ . ... .~_i. . 1-:-:-1__1i, yy 'fi y Let NIKEstndent know the and location f ■ •• ■■■•■■. ’ ; •■••■•• ■- • ■ - - ■ • ■ ; ■■ ^ • ■ ■ _ ;■ ■ ■- - •■ ■■ ■
