The fallowing is a brief list of
events this weekend. For more
information, call the venue.
CONCERTS:
Duffy’s Tavern, 14120 St
(402)474-3543
Sunday: Cave Catt Sammy
with 10-cent Pistol
Duggan’s Pub, 440S. 11th St
(402)477-3513
Friday: FAC with
Wheezetones (early) and Slo
Bum (late)
Saturday: Blackberry Winter
Knickerbocker's, 901 OSt
(402)476-6865
Friday: 8th Wave and Patio
Furniture
Saturday: Floating Opera and
Music O
Pla Mor Ballroom, 6600 W. O
St (402) 475-4030
Friday: Comedian Rodney
Carrington
Saturday: Derailers with the
Self-Righteous Brothers
Sunday: Sandy Creek and
Homegrown
Royal Grove, 340 W.
CornhuskerHwy.
(402)474-2332
Friday: On the Dritz
Saturday: Boss Philly
Sunday. Shaggy
WCs Downtown, 1228P St
(402)477-4006
Friday: Honeydogs
Saturday. Mylow
The Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St
(402)435-8754
Friday. The Morels
Saturday Randy McAlister
THEATER:
Mary Riepma Ross Film
Theater, 12P1 and R streets
(402)472-5353
All weekend: 'I&mmy Faye
The Star City Dinner Theatre
and Comedy Cabaret803Q St
(402)477-8277
All weekend: “It's a Wonderful
Life"
Studio Theatre, Temple
Building, 12th and R streets
(402)472-2072
Saturday: “Sex and
Metaphors”
GALLERIES:
Doc’s Place, 140 N. Eighth St
(402)476-3232
All weekend: Kameron
Becwar
Gallery 9,124 S. Ninth St,
Suite-4
(402)477-2822
“Borealis" by Michelle Anle
Farrar and Judith Andre
Haydon Art Gallery
335 N. Eighth St. (402) 475
5421
All weekend: Dave Stewart
Noyes Art Gallery, 119 S. Ninth
St
(402)475-1061
All weekend: Gretchen
Meyers, Kaori Schimzu, Tom
Bord, Chris and Pat Donlan
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1. J. Match 4 the Fog
“More Light”
I would make some joke about J.
Mascis being the Dinosaur Jr.
frontman and proving he’s not
gone extinct but that would be
lame
2. The Doves
“Lost Souls”
Representing the best of the post
britpop output
3. Badly Drawn Boy
“Hour of the Bewilderteast”
Debut from Damon Gough, often
compared to the likes of the Beta
Band and Gomez, only he wins
prizes
4. The Death Cab for Cutie
“Forbidden Love EP”
Five songs from this post-grunge
Pacific Northwest outfit
5. Russel Simins
“Public Places”
a.k.a. the man behind Butter 08,
the drummer from the Jon Spencer
Blues Explosion...
6. Mike G
“Sugar Daddy”
Four-track home-recorded indie
rock... complete with a tongue in
cheek
7. Idaho
“Hearts of Palm”
Part of the growing slo-core
movement
8. High Llamas
“Buzzle Bee”
Sean O’Hagan’s first release on
Drag City
9. Elysian Fields
“Queen of the Meadow”
Dark, moody and melancholy...
typical Jetset material and typically
great I
10. Eyesinweasel
“Wrinkled Thoughts”
Ex-Guided By Voices member
Tobin Sprout’s “new” project
Wesleyan festival /
to take audience I
to Elizabethan times 14
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BY MAUREEN GALLAGHER
Lords and Ladies, madrigals, recorders, lutes, cham
ber music and Shakespeare come to mind when think
ing of the Elizabethan time period.
The Nebraska Wesleyan University Chamber Singers
will use most of them in its annual Elizabethan
Christmas Celebration this weekend at St. Paul United
Methodist Church, 1144 M St.
The Christmas celebration features a dinner held by
Lord Norvel and Lady Susan Kneaten, Elizabethan
Christmas music from the Chamber Singers, a
recorder concert, a brass ensemble and Comedia del
Afte, a comedic theater performance.
William Wyman, the head of Wesleyan’s vocal
music department and director of the Chamber
Singers, said the evening is designed to resemble a
traditional renaissance Christmas celebration.
“The event is basically a recreation of a typical
renaissance Christmas feast,” Wyman said. “We cre
ate a baronial hall, and there will be a meal with lots of
(entertainment).”
Performance Preview
Elizabethan
Christmas
Celebration
Where: St Paul United
" Methodist Church,
1144MSI
—(when"Saturday & Sunday
% 6 p.m.
Cost: $15, call 477-6951
r tickets
During the evening,
the 20 members of the
Chamber Singers will
strive to maintain the
authentic Elizabethan
atmosphere, Wyman
said.
“The Chamber
Singers wear period cos
tumes, and the music is
real Christmas music
but Elizabethan,”
Wyman said.
The Elizabethan
Christmas Celebration
marks the culmination
of the Chamber Singers’
fall work.
“It is a big project,”
Wyman said. “They learn and memorize between 20 and 25
.pieces of music, learn period dances and are a part of the the
ater performance.”
The event would not be a success, however, without the
cooperation of many Nebraska Wesleyan departments, Wyman
said. The department of music provides the singers and musi
cians. The Society for Creative Anachronism decorates for the
event, and the department of speech and theater presents
the comedic theater performance.
The Chamber Singers presents its Christmas extravagan
za, now in its 10th year, several times throughout the holi
days, but the two performances this weekend will be the first.
The evening of Elizabethan music, dance, instruments
and comic theater begins at 6 on Saturday and Sunday.
Megan Dickson from St Paul United Methodist Church said
the performances will be inclusive.
“There will be music, singing and dancing, and the Chamber
Singers will be giving a concert during the meal,” Dickson said.
“Those who attend the dinner will be made a part of the perform
ance.”
Orchestra appeals to all ages
■The nearly 60-member
group will play a concert
focused on British works.
BY BRIAN CHRISTOPHERSON
Age. Forget age. It means
nothing to the Lincoln Civic
Orchestra.
If you’re 18-years-old
and can play a good vio
lin, welcome aboard. If
you’re 83-years-old and
can play a mean French
hom, welcome aboard.
“It’s interesting. We
have students, alumni,
community members,”
Director Pat Fortney said.
“We have people from all
walks of life. It can present a
challenge but can.also be
very exciting.”
That's right. Students,
professors, church custo
dians, retirees - this
orchestra has it all covered.
On Sunday, the orches
tra will perform at
O'Donnell Auditorium at
Nebraska Wesleyan
University. Tickets cost $6
$2 for
dents.
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Melanie Falk/DN
The title of the performance
is “From the Isle." Fortney said
viewers can expect to hear music
from Great Britain.
One of the feature songs will
be Handel's “Messiah," while
singer Jana Holtmaier sings solo
with the accompanied music.
It will be one of the few
chances to see the orchestra,
which usually performs only
about
tnree
times a
year.
The
orchestra
features
about 60
players -
all with
differ
ent back
grounds
nrhidin? a pood
number of Wesleyan students
and some UNL students, Fortney
said.
“We play a variety of music
from a variety of composers,” vio
lin player Wanda Dietrich said. “It
will be a full program.”
Full program? More like a full
day for the Dietrichs.
Wanda’s husband, Larry
Dietrich, plays first-chair French
horn. Daughter Elizabeth played
the oboe with the orchestra
before heading off to college.
The Dietrich family shows
Performance Preview
Lincoln Civic
Orchestra
how open the orchestra is to
auditioning community mem
bers.
The Dietrichs moved to
Lincoln from Colorado, and the
orchestra gave them a chance to
still do what they love: Play
music.
“It gives people who wish to
play a chance, even when they’re
out of school,” Wanda Dietrich
said.
The orchestra loves to open
its doors to the city, Fortney said.
“We want anybody who can
play to have a chance to audi
tion,” Fortney said. "We have a
few families like the Dietrichs.”
Who says family time is being
lost? Surely not the Dietrichs.
"It’s definitely a family friend
ly atmosphere,” Dietrich said. “It
makes it a lot of fun.”
Star Wars documentary
to be shown at planetarium
Nearly nine hours before the
evening's laser-light show
begins, a different type of laser
will make its appearance in
UNL’s Mueller Planetarium
today.
At noon, the planetarium
will play host to a behind-the
scenes documentary of George
Lucas’ Star Wars.
UNL’s planetarium (14th and
U streets) is one of the locations
chosen by the Smithsonian
Institution for the live, one
time-only satellite broadcast.
Admission is free, but seat
ing is limited to 80 people and
will be on a first-come, first
seated basis.
Additional monitors in the
planetarium’s lobby also will
broadcast the film.
Jack Dunn, coordinator of
Mueller Planetarium, said the
special 26-minute film is educa
tional and will feature inter
views with Lucas and the key
players in the Star Wars trilogy.
The film will show the con
nection between world mythol
ogy, storytelling and the trilogy.
“We feel very fortunate to be
able to participate in this special
broadcast,” Dunn said.
The broadcast is in connec
tion with the Smithsonian
exhibit called “Star Wars: The
Magic of Myth,” which is at the
Field Museum in Chicago
through Jan. 7.
Band to help raise money
for speedi, nearing dink
The local band Mylow will
play a benefit concert at WC’s,
1228 P St., starting at 9 p.m.
Saturday.
There is a $5 cover charge,
and prizes will be given from die
Jagermeister Girls. Penny pitch
ers will be sold all night
Proceeds from the concert
will benefit the Nebraska
Student Speech Language and
Hearing Association.
The association is a
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
organization for students
majoring in communication
disorders.
Money from the fund-raiser
will enhance therapy materials
available for student and client
use at the UNL Speech
Language and Hearing Clinic.
The proceeds also will be
used to buy books, toys and
other resources for children and
adults who may not have access
to learning materials.
Mylow was formed last May
and originally played cover
songs under the name Planet of
the Apes. Since then, the band
has written and performed its
own music and is working on an
album that will be completed
this winter.