Category: Music
The NIU Jazz Orchestra, directed by Reggie Thomas, will present the “Let’s Swing Dance!” from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18, in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center. NIU students with ID are admitted free. General admission tickets are $10; the price for senior citizens and other students is $7. Tickets...
Cor Cantiamo, the NIU School of Music ensemble-in-residence, will present its first concert of the season at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall. Listeners will hear stunning beauty and drama. From music to observe the 100th observation of WWI to songs about love and loss to exciting new rhythms and...
Rappers Rich Homie Quan and Hoodie Allen are coming Friday, Oct. 23, to the NIU Convocation Center for the “Huskies Light the Night” Homecoming concert. Presented by the Campus Activities Board, the Student Association and the Convocation Center, the show begins at 8 p.m. with opening act DJ Jamal Smallz. Doors open at 7 p.m....
NIU’s Community School of the Arts invites musicians ages 18 years and younger to compete in the annual CSA Sinfonia Concerto Competition. The deadline for applications is Monday, Oct. 19. Auditions are scheduled in the Recital Hall of the NIU Music Building beginning at 5 p.m.Monday, Nov. 16. The winner receives a $200 cash prize...
Cor Cantiamo, a touring chamber choir in residence at the NIU School of Music, was awarded a grant from the Farny R. Wurlitzer Foundation Fund. The fund provides assistance to further music education, music appreciation and performance; Cor Cantiamo received the grant through the DeKalb County Community Foundation. “We are grateful to the Wurlitzer Foundation...
NIU’s Avalon String Quartet earned the praise of New York Times music reviewer Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, who enjoyed the group’s new CD, titled “Illuminations.” In the Sept. 2 edition of the “Classical Playlist,” the critic calls the new CD a “deeply satisfying recording.” “The Avalon String Quartet, playing with great warmth and tenderness, appears to...
Registration is open for the fall semester at the NIU Community School of the Arts, sponsored by the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The community school offers year-round programming for more than 400 students who come from nearly 50 cities, towns and suburbs for classes, lessons and ensembles. Programs for children and adults begin...
Jan Bach, NIU Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus in the School of Music, has received the $5,000 first prize in the choral composition contest sponsored by Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, a national music fraternity. Bach’s “Clink,” a drinking song for men’s chorus and piano with words by Chicago poet Eugene Field, stood atop 114 entries to...
Snare drums snap, bells ting-a-ling and flutes whistle like birds. But why does one instrument sound any different than another? And how do objects produce sound in the first place? NIU alum Andrew Morrison has spent his career using physics to study these questions. At the next STEM Café, he will present “Good Vibrations: The...
Grammy Award-winning country group Little Big Town has added a fall leg of THE PAIN KILLER TOUR that will stop Thursday, Oct. 29, at the NIU Convocation Center. The foursome – Karen Fairchild, Jimi Westbrook, Phillip Sweet, and Kimberly Schlapman – already have hit more than 50 markets on this highly successful headlining tour produced...
Young musicians can improve their musicianship and ensemble skills and have fun at two chamber camps at NIU this summer. The camps are scheduled for from Monday, July 6, through Thursday, July 9, and meet in the NIU Music Building. Duet Camp meets from 10 to 11:30 a.m. and String Quartet Camp meets from 1...
Singers in the DeKalb Festival Chorus will present its spring concert, “HOME,” at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 9. The concert, which takes place at First Lutheran Church, 324 N. Third St., will feature “Down in the Valley,” a folk opera created by German composer Kurt Weill and librettist Arnold Sundgaard. Additional pieces will showcase the...
