Category: Arts
Because of this week’s excessive heat, the Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s Concert in the Park will be performed indoors tonight at the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of the NIU Music Building. The free concert begins at 8 p.m., and the auditorium is accessible to all. Signs have been modified at Hopkins Park to alert and direct...
The DeKalb Festival Chorus invites new singers to join. An inspiring season is ahead, including a collaborative Peace Concert, Fauré’s “Requiem” in the fall and Great Opera Choruses in the spring. Rehearsals begin at 7:15 p.m. Monday, Aug. 15, at NIU. Director Jen Whiting briefly interviews and listens to each new singer for correct placement...
One of the benefits of membership to the NIU Art Museum is having access to wonderful regional art and cultural sites and events. Enjoy the company of other enthusiasts and don’t worry about driving and parking. Details for all bus trips are available online. Summer trips include: Friday, July 22 (members only) “Warm Light, Cool Shadows, The...
Opera usually does not excite children, but a performance of Stone Soup during NIU’s summer opera camp sparked the zeal of a dozen elementary and middle school students. During the camp, students not only learned the story behind Stone Soup, but they studied it, rehearsed its lines and performed it for parents and its composer,...
NIU’s Center for Economic Education and Econ Illinois recently held an awards presentation at NIU-Naperville to honor the state and regional winners and honorable mentions in the 2011 Economic Concepts Poster Contest. More than 2,500 students from 51 K-12 schools participated. Students were encouraged to use their imaginations in producing posters to communicate the concepts of...
Violin and bow in hand, Katelyn Kozinski stood quietly and patiently Wednesday morning among microphones, video cameras and computer monitors inside the darkened Recital Hall. Promptly at 10 a.m., the May graduate of the NIU School of Music was bathed in light. The blurry images on the movie screen behind her sharpened into a clear,...
Northern Illinois University lends art to campus offices through the NASCAR Program: NIU Art museum Summer Collection Art Rental. Since 2005, the NIU Art Museum has made selected pieces from the museum collection available for rental to secure campus offices at the university. During an exhibition of available artwork, interested NIU departments can “bid” on their...
NIU’s School of Music has been invited by Internet2 to provide a high-quality demonstration of an interactive video technology for an international conference in Barcelona, Spain. The demonstration will take place from 10 to 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 15, from the Music Building Recital Hall. All are welcome for a first-hand experience with technology that will play a...
The Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra has announced its 35th annual concert season for 2011-2012. All concerts, except the Summer Concert in the Park and the Children’s Concert, are held in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of the NIU Music Building. The community is invited to enjoy the KSO’s Summer Concert in the Park at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July...
Lucia Matos, director of the NIU Philharmonic and music director of the Opera Workshop in the School of Music, was one of two women selected among 66 applicants for the 2011 Conducting Fellows in the Conductors Program of the National Arts Centre’s Summer Music Institute. This is the first time two women have shared the podium...
Kerry Freedman, professor and head of the Art Education division in the NIU School of Art, recently was awarded a grant from the National Art Education Foundation to continue her work on the international project she is directing. The title of the project is “Art Education and Visual Learning Networks: Lessons about Creativity and Cognition from...
A classic American novel, a treacherous mountain climb, and a Shakespearean romance of lost love are just a few of the themes filling out an eclectic theatre production schedule for the NIU School of Theatre and Dance’s upcoming 2011-2012 Mainstage Series season. As an official presentation to its subscribers May 1, the school announced the...
