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The following is a brief list of
weekend events. Please call the
venue for more information.
CONCERTS:
Duffys, 1412 0 St.
Sunday: House of Large Sizes
Kimball Recital Hall, 301 N. 12th
St.
Friday: Lionel Friend
Saturday and Sunday: “Morike
songs of Hugo Wolf”
Knickerbockers, 901 O St.
Friday: Maniacal, Manifest, M
80, Angst For Everything
Saturday: Black Light Sunshine,
Spelling Tuesday
The Royal Grove, 340 W.
Cornhusker Highway
Friday: The Rockin’ Fossils
Saturday: Sir Mix-A-Lot
7th Street Loft, 504 S. Seventh St.
Friday: Ann Carlson
Saturday: Third Chair Chamber
Players
Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St.
Friday and Saturday: The Self
Righteous Brothers
THEATER:
Lincoln Community Playhouse,
2500 S. 56th St.
All weekend: “Hello, Dolly!”
Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater,
12th and R streets
Friday and Saturday: “Buena Vista
Social Club”
Sunday: “Hideous Kinky”
Star City Dinner Theatre
Suite 100, 803 Q St.
Friday and Saturday: Susan Rice
in the Comedy Cabaret
GALLERIES:
The Burkholder Project, 719 P St.
All weekend: works by Anne
Burkholder, Nancy Childs, Bill
Ganzel and Ellen Smith
Gallery 9, 124 S. Ninth St.
All weekend: works by David
Alles
Haydon Gallery, 335 N. Eighth St.
All weekend: works by Donna
Barger
Lentz Center, Morill Hall, 14th
and U streets
All weekend: paintings by Shi Hu
Noyes Gallery, 119 S. Ninth St.
All weekend: works by Gretchen
Meyers, Susan Barnes, Evelyn
Issacs, Lois Meysenburg and Tom
Palmerton
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The Sheldon Memorial Art
Gallery, 12tfl and R streets
All weekend: “Black Image and
Identity,” Modern Masters,
Charles Rain’s “Magic Realism”
Musk school presents Wolfs work
By Josh Nichols
Staff writer
This weekend, the School of Music
presents a complete book of songs by
the “angry romantic.”
The 53-song recital, “The Morike
Songs of Hugo Wolf,” will be per
formed this Sunday at 2 p.m. at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
A three-person ensemble will per
form the songs and internationally
renowned conductor and pianist Lionel
Friend will accompany them on piano.
The three singers are Karen Kness,
soprano; Lucinda Sloan, mezzo-sopra
no; and director of opera at UNL,
William Shomos, baritone.
The music being performed on
Sunday is a collection of music by
Wolf, the “angry romantic,” composed
to the poetry of Eduard Morike.
Originally from London, Friend
has performed throughout Europe,
England and the United States.
Friend, whose specialty is late 19th
century music, is excited to take part in
this weekend’s groundbreaking con
cert.
“This is a remarkable opportunity
for us to be doing this set of poems,”
Friend said.
No one has ever done the entire
book in one concert, both Friend and
Shomos emphasized.
Wolf, a composer in the late 19th
century, is described by some as the
best song writer of his day and as the
best of all time by others.
Born in Windischgraz, Austria,
now Slovenj Gradec, in 1860, Wolf
was tutored by his father in piano and
violin at a young age.
He decided to pursue a profession
al musical career and entered school at
the Viennese conservatory in 1875.
There, Wolf first encountered
Richard Wagner, the man whom he
grew to idolize.
Wolf saw Wagner conduct a con
cert and wrote his parents afterward:
“Through the music of this great
master, I was totally beside myself and
became a Wagnerian,” Wolf wrote.
Later on, Wolf’s admiration for
Wagner would show up in his work.
In 1878, Wolf found new inspira
tion in his composing - a girl named
Valentine Franck.
Franck spent only half a year at a
time with Wolf in Vienna, and when
she left, Wolf said he would compose a
good song every day and would some
times produce two.
Wolf gained his first musical office
in 1881, when he was appointed choir
conductor at the municipal theater of
Salzburg, Austria.
In 1884, Wolf left his office to
u
Wolf’s music clearly
hits to the point of
the poems. His music
finds the mood of the
poetry”
Lionel Friend
pianist
become a music reviewer for a weekly
paper, the Wiener Salonblatt.
He quit in 1887 and went back to
composing, which he would do for
most of the remainder of his life.
Work he would do included his 53
Morike songs, 20 Eichendorff songs,
51 Goethe songs and many others.
In 1897, while in the process of
composing “Manuel Venegas,” Wolf
became ill.
The manic-depressive Wolf would
spend the rest of his life in a mental
hospital until he died in 1903.
The work Wolf did in his short 43
years left a lasting impression.
This weekend’s symposium will
Please see WOLF on 14
• 'Saturday-' v-.
9:30 a.m. Robert Snirer, "Eduard
Morike and His Poetry"
first Piymottih
Congregational Church,
20th and D streets
10:45 am. Joseph Kraus. "An analytical
perspective: Outward images
and inner meanings,*
First Plymouth
Congregational Church
1 p.m. David Breckbill, "Wolf Tracks:
Recordings and Changing
Perceptions of Hugo WOTs
Lieder * First Plymouth
Congregational Church
2:30 p.m. Susan YOuenS, "Paired Songs,
Unpaired Persohae: Life and
Art in the Morike-Lieder,"
First Plymouth
Congregational Church
Sunday
1 p m. Pre-performance lecture by
Susan Ybuens, Kimball Hall
2-6 pm. Recital. "The Morike Songs
of Hugo Wotf,*
(2 intermissions)
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