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CONCERTS:
buffy* Tavern, 1412 0 St.
(402)474-3543
Sunday: Park: A Rock Band,
Broken Crown
Clifford Hardin Center, 33rd
and Holdrege streets
(402) 472-3435
Saturday and Sunday: “Cabaret
2000: A Rodgers &
Hammerstein Extravaganza”
Kimball Hall, 11th and R streets
(402) 472-4747
Friday: University Symphony
Orchestra
Sunday: Wind Ensemble (after- C
noon performance), Choral
Event (evening performance)
Knickerbocker’s, 901 OSt.
(402) 476-6865
Friday: Wasteoid, Vual,Sway
the Balance, Beebee, Lune
Saturday: 8 Found Bed, Crush
the Clown
Lied Center for Performing
Arts, 3ION. 12th St.
(402) 472-4747
Friday: “Voices of Light”
Sunday: Carnegie Hall Jazz
O ’Donnell Auditorium, 50th &
Huntington streets
(402) 465-2319
Sunday: ‘Triple Concerto”
Royal Grove, 340 W.
'omhusker
Highway
(402) 474-2332
Friday: On the Fritz
Saturday: Das EFX, Black
Sheep
The Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th
(402) 435-8754
Friday: Brave Combo
Saturday: Long John Hunter
Sunday: Wilderness Park
Benefit
THEATER:
Howell Theatre, Temple
Building, 12th and R streets
(402) 472-2073
Friday and Saturday: “All in the
Timing”
Lincoln Community Playhouse,
2500 S. 56th St.
(402) 489-7529
All weekend: “Three Little Pigs
Out West”
Mary Riepma Ross Film
Theater,
12th and R streets
(402)472-2461'
Friday and Saturday: “Sweet
and Lowdown” ? -
Sunday: “King of Masks”
McDonald Theatre, 51st and
Huntington streets
(402) 465-2384
All weekend: “A Flea in Her
Ear”
Star City Dinner Theatre, 8th &
Q streets
(402) 477-8277
All weekend: “The Sound of
Music”
GALLERIES: F
Burkholder Project, 719 P St.
(402) 477-3305
All weekend: Nebraska
Landscapes Invitational,
Richard Terrell
Noyes Gallery, 119 S.^ St.
(402) 475-1061
All weekend: Olive Bishop and
Bonnie Goochey, works created
by members of the Nebraska
Bead Society
Rotunda Gallery, Nebraska
Union, 14th &R streets
(472-2631))
Friday: “Apple Pie American
Girl”
The Sheldon Memorial Art
Gallery, 12th and R streets
(402) 472-2461
All weekend: UNL MFA
acuity
Biennial, MFA Portfolio: “Past
and Present”
Joslyn college night offers
free culture, food and art
By Josh Nichols
Staff writer
Most college students’ lives are
lacking in high culture. Probably
because most high culture - plays,
musicals and concerts included - costs
money.
But art - at least for tonight - is free.
The Joslyn Art Museum, 2200
Dodge St. in Omaha, will hold its annu
al college night tonight from 7 to 9 as
part of its educational outreach pro
gram.
The event, free to students with
identification, works to encourage stu
dents to come inside and see what the
museum has to offer.
“College night is part of our bigger
effort to get aft ages to come and see the
museum,” said Sherrie Gauley, curator
ofeducationatthe
Joslyn. “We have
a core audience,
but we need to
look for ways to
get others to visit
who might not
normally come.”
Since it
opened in 1931,
the Joslyn Art
Museum has been
* a center in the
Midwest for visu
al arts, with its
encyclopedic per
manent collection
of historic and
contemporary
works from such
artists as fc.1 ureco, Monet and Degas.
It also brings in special exhibitions
such as the current “Dale Chihuly:
Inside & Out” exhibit and the “Pacific
Arcadia: Images of California” exhibit
The museum has something that art
lovers and those just interested in some
thing different can enjoy.
Guided tours of the Dale Chihuly
iC We have a core
audience, but we
need to look for
ways to get others
to visit who might
not normally
come."
Sherrie Gauley
curator of education at the Joslyn
and Pacific Arcadia exhibits will be
provided throughout the evening.
Chihuly is a world-renowned artist
known for his glassblowing work.
Amy Krobot, spokeswoman for the
Joslyn, said Chihuly is considered one
of the top contemporary artists in the
world.
“The exhibit will show Chihuly’s
glasswork, along with drawings and
work he has done with plastic,” Krobot
said.
Immaculate chandeliers made by
Chihuly will he on display along with a
permanent piece he made for the
Joslyn’s atrium. The permanent piece is
a glass window installation that
includes 2,080 pieces of glass and
weighs more than 1,500 pounds.
As part of college night, gtessblow
ing demonstrations will be done in the
Joslyn hot shop, located in the muse
um s east parking
lot.
Also part of the
night is a 7:15
showing of the doc
umentary on
Chihuly’s 1995
international glass
blowing project
titled “Chihuly
Over Venice.”
The other spe
cial exhibit,
“Pacific Arcadia:
Images of
California, 1600
1915” shows maps,
images and letters
used to promote
California through
out the history of the United States.
Split into six different areas repre
senting six different time periods, the
exhibit shows the methods used to get
people to move to and experience the
“California dream.”
Students who attended college
night a year ago will see something new
, College Night
f WHERE: Joslyn Art
'> i .. Museum, 2200 Dodge St.,
; Omaha
WHEN: tonight, 7 - 9 p.m.
COST: free for college
^ students
l f THE SKINNY: Event
attempts to attract students
s' to Joslyn’s diverse offerings.
in the museum’s permanent exhibits.
Galleries three, four and five have
been renovated, so students will be able
to see the permanent collection dis
played in a “whole new light,” Krobot
said.
The recent renovations were done
to highlight some M the beauty in the
building’s original design.
The original marble wainscoting in
the building has been revealed along
with new color and lighting schemes in
each gallery.
Along with the redesign of the
building itself, Krobot said several
pieces of 20th-century art that have not
been on display for years have been
reworked and put back on display.
Other special events for college
night include a hands-on drawing
workshop on the atrium bridge and live
music in the atrium by pianist Robert
Glaser.
Pizza and pop will be served
throughout the evening, and prizes will
be given out at 8:45 p.m.
This marks the 21st year the Joslyn
has held college night. Gauley said die
event is an important one for the muse
um.
“We want to create an event where
students can come and have fun and
get the feeling that they belong here,”
she said. “We have a wonderful collec
tion and beautiful spaces. We want to
create a situation where students can
feel welcome viewing what we have to
offer.”
Domingo plans political operas
WASHINGTON (AP) - Placido
Domingo, singing star and musical
director of the Washington Opera,
said Wednesday that four of the eight
operas in its next season will have
political themes.
Affairs of state were also on
Domingo’s own schedule for
Wednesday evening, when he is
scheduled to perform at a White
House state dinner for Spain’s King
Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia.
the Washington Opera’s 2000
2001 season opens Oct. 19, less ttyan
three weeks before Election Day.
• But the operas will be about inter
national politics, not the American
presidential race. The closest they
come to the problems of today is Gian
Carlo Menotti’s “The Consul,” which
premiered in 1950. It tells of a resis
tance hero frustrated in his attempt to
escape the firing squad because of the
difficulty of getting a visa to leave his
country.
“It was considered a realistic slice
of post World War II times,”
Domingo said.
“It seems more pertinent today
than ever, considering the fate of so
many unfortunate people in eastern
Europe.”
The political themes in season
will go back to Giuseppe Verdi’s
“Don Carlo,” which deals with the
struggle of the Netherlands for free
dom from the tyranny of Spain more
than 400 years ago.
Two other operas come from
plays that Domingo said deeply influ
enced the French Revolution. They
are Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville”
and Mozart’s “The Marriage of
Figaro.” Both plays were written by
Pierre Beaumarchais, who influenced
the French king to support the
American Revolutionary War.
Both plays appeared in Paris
while the war was on. Beaumarchais
collected volunteers, money, supplies
and a fleet to carry them to
Washington’s army.
Domingo is not directing or
singing in any of the political operas,
but he will take the title role in
Richard Wagner’s “Parsifal,” which
the Washington Opera is performing
for the first time this season, its 45th.
The season will open with the
rarely-produced “Don Quixote” of
Jules Massenet. It also will include
Verdi’s “II Trovatore” and Giacomo
Puccini’s “Turanadot.”
The Carnegie Hall Jazz Band
will perform a tribute to jazz leg
ends Duke Ellington and Louis
Armstrong on Sunday, Feb. 27, at
the Lied Center for Performing
Arts.
The show, “Jazz Genius of the
20th Century: Ellington and
Armstrong,” will be directed by
acclaimed trumpeter Jon Faddis.
Faddis, inspired by Armstrong
and Dizzy Gillespie as a child, has
been featured with artists including
Ellington, The Rolling Stones,
Luther Vandross, Quincy Jones and
Aretha Franklin.
Faddis brings his jazz heritage
to the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band in
the tribute to Ellington and
Armstrong. The performance will
highlight the strengths of the two
musicians featuring classics like
Ellington’s “Choo, Choo” and
Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful
World.”
The Carnegie Hall Jazz Band
debuted in 1992 and has performed
original arrangements as well as
tributes to jazz legends.
Previous tributes include those
to John Coltrane, Miles Davis,
Benny Goodman, Cole Porter,
Count Basie and Irving Berlin.
Pre-performance talks will be
held at 6:00 and 6:30 p.m. in the
Lied’s Steinhart Room. The perfor
mance starts at 7:00 p.m. and tickets
are $24-$32. Half price tickets are
available for students and those
under 18.
Tonight
Hi
Advance tickets for
both shows 8:30
and 11:00
6ombfr
$10 per show
LONG
JOHN
HUNTER
$8 per show
Tomorrow Night
“A bluesman who
deserves to be heard. Just
listen to this guy play.”
-Billy Gibbons, ZZ Top
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