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How do you compose a theme for a Star Wars project and make it “sound like Star Wars” without using any of John Williams’ iconic score? That’s a challenge NIU School of Music alumnus Jermaine Stegall took head on when charged with creating music for Lucasfilm’s Our Star Wars Stories. “For these episodes we didn’t have a...
One of the most popular parts of the NIU gameday experience will see a shift designed to better align it with its key audiences.  Starting next fall, as part of a coordinated effort between university administration, the College of Visual and Performing Arts and the Athletic Department, the Huskie Marching Band will be relocated, administratively...
Richard Jenkins, a DeKalb native and Emmy Award winning, and Oscar nominated actor, will be at NIU on Tuesday, October 30 at 2 p.m. for a Q and A with students in the Stevens Building’s O’Connell Theatre. Jenkins won the 2015 Emmy Award for Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for HBO’s Olive Kitteredge which...
Concert season is in full swing (sometimes literally) in the School of Music, with a host of opportunities to hear great music performed by very talented students. There’s something for every musical taste, from NIU’s quartet-in-residence, the Avalon String Quartet (November 5) to a number of great jazz performances, to the NIU Philharmonic (November 14),...
When you think of college football, inevitably you picture a crisp fall day full of changing leaves and bright sunshine, tailgating fans and players running onto the field with glistening helmets. But it’s not just what you picture, it’s what you hear. College football, more than any other sport, means the distinctive sounds of marching...
NIU School of Music Professor and Director of Percussion Studies Greg Beyer and retired School of Music faculty member Robert Fleisher are featured on “Long Roll: A Tribute to Composer-Percussionist Michael Manion” by Albany Records. The release features a solo malletKAT composition of Fleisher’s written specifically for Manion. The project is a collaboration between the NIU and...
NIU and DeKalb were the home to one of the most influential artists of her time, and an exhibit in the Founders Memorial Library explores the music collection and impact of cellist Raya Garbousova. The exhibit, which runs through July 31, and will be available to be viewed upon request after it’s run is complete,...
The exhibition “Picture Fiction: Kenneth Josephson and Contemporary Photography” opens this week at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, and it features two works from NIU School of Art and Design Instructor of Photography Jessica Labatte. The exhibition is a survey of the work of Josephson, a Chicago-based photographer who taught at the School of the Art Institute...
A distinctive part of the soundtrack for Star Wars: The Last Jedi was the steel drum on the music that played during the movie’s scenes on the planet of Canto Bight. That influence, it turns out, can be traced back directly to NIU’s Liam Teague, professor of Music and head of Steelpan Studies. Legendary composer John Williams,...
Students from the NIU Dance program performed at the Central Conference of the American College Dance Association (ACDA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Saturday-Sunday, March 17-18. Their performance was of such high quality that they earned the top honor at the conference, and with it, an invitation to perform at the National College...
WNIJ 89.5 FM and NIU STEAM are partnering to create “The Sound of Science,” a weekly series explaining important science, technology, engineering and math concepts using sound. The feature will air on WNIJ at 1 p.m. on Fridays, as a lead-in to Science Friday. The first “Sound of Science” episode will air on Friday, April...
“It’s not about your art, or how you’re going to make your art,” said NIU Professor of Dance Paula Frasz. “It’s about making a living making your art and being an artist.” Twenty-five years ago, when Frasz first joined the faculty at NIU, she conceived of a course that would go beyond the physical aspects to...
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