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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
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...
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Northern Public Radio, home to 89.5 WNIJ and Classical WNIU, is looking for original art by local artists to feature in the 2016 Northern Public Radio wall calendar. All visual artwork is eligible for consideration, including painting, sculptures, mixed media, photography and more. “We have incredibly talented artists who live and work throughout northern Illinois...
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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...
Northern Illinois University Art Museum’s annual Art to Lend on-campus artwork rental program returns Monday, July 13th with an exhibition of pieces from the Museum’s permanent collection available for rental and display in campus offices and administrative areas. Interested individuals may view the selected works in the Museum’s Rotunda Gallery between 10 a.m. and 3...
Little Big Town: Pain Killer Tour
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...
Illinois Comptroller Leslie Geissler Munger and Laurence Anthonie Tumpag
NIU graduate anthropology student Laurence Anthonie Tumpag was among 24 young Chicagoland Asian-American leaders honored Monday in Chicago. Illinois Comptroller Leslie Geissler Munger led the celebration at the James R. Thompson Center which was held to coincide with Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. The program also featured performances by traditional Korean folk music drumming group...
String Quartet Chamber Camp
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...
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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...
Robert L. Even
Robert Lawrence Even, who joined NIU in September of 1963 as an associate professor of art and retired nearly 30 years later, died Tuesday, April 7, in DeKalb. He was 85. Even served as chair of the Department of Art from 1974 to 1990; it became known as the School of Art in 1987. During...
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The Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra presents its spring concert, “The Rite of Spring,” its 38th season finale, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 2, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of the NIU Music Building. Joining Igor Stravinsky’s masterpiece on the program are Symphony No. 31 (“Paris”), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; and “Songs of a Wayfarer,” by...
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The NIU Community School of the Arts has announced its spring 2015 recital and concert schedule. Solo and ensemble performances are featured in late April and May on the stage of the Recital Hall and Concert Hall in the NIU Music Building. Most performances end with a reception. All recitals and concerts are free and open...
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