Category: Arts
The Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s first performance of its 34th annual concert season is its fall concert, “Scandinavian Splendor,” to be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of the NIU Music Building. This concert will feature Jean Sibelius’ “The Swan of Tuonela, Op. 22, No. 3,” Edvard Grieg’s “Piano Concerto in A...
ARTLab is an interdisciplinary project initiated by the NIU School of Art investigating the in/visible as its overarching theme for 2010-2011. ARTLab shares an interest in making visible the invisible structures — social, disciplinary, physical, linguistic, conventional, ritual — that shape our experience, including the imperceptible, the subliminal, the imagined, the remembered, the overlooked, the erased,...
For its opening program of the year, NIU Opera Theater presents scenes from two related works: “The Threepenny Opera” and “The Beggar’s Opera.” Performances are at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 6, and 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 7, in the Recital Hall in the Music Building. In 1728, London saw the premiere of “The Beggar’s Opera,”...
The NIU School of Music will host a concert by guest artists Duo XXI (Anna Cromwell, violin; Mira Frisch, cello) at 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 3, in the Music Building Recital Hall. The program will consist of seven new pieces commissioned by Duo XXI, each inspired by something non-musical, such as a painting, a poem,...
The NIU Philharmonic, under the direction of conductor Lucia Matos, will present its first concert of the fall semester at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 29, in Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, located in the Music Building. Selections on the program are Felix Mendelssohn’s “Overture to Die schone Melusine, Op. 32,” Robert Schumann’s “Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op....
In conjunction with the NIU Art Museum exhibition “StAGEs of Transition,” poets and poetry enthusiasts will read their original or favorite poems about aging and stages of life during a poetry recital from 7:15 to 8:15 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23, in Altgeld Hall Room 315. To register to read, call (815) 753-1936 or e-mail darntzen@niu.edu....
NIU’s School of Music will host a concert featuring guest artists Wolfgang David (violin) and David Gompper (piano) at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 24, in the Recital Hall of the Music Building, 300 Lucinda Ave. The program will feature works by living composers Gompper, Bruce Adolphe and School of Music faculty member David Maki. Also...
The Clare College Chapel Choir will perform a free concert of English choral music at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of the NIU School of Music. Under the direction of Timothy Brown, this world-renowned choir from Cambridge, England, will presents works by Renaissance masters such as Christopher Tye, Thomas Tomkins and...
This weekend downtown DeKalb will be a live music and art scene. The city is hosting Middlewest Fest, beginning today and running through Saturday evening, Sept. 11. Middlewest Fest will offer a variety of music entertainment, along with local art shows, and an independent film festival. Local bands Chris Dertz and State Champs along with national acts...
China’s Golden Dragon Acrobats are set to dazzle audiences of all ages Saturday, Dec. 4, at the NIU Convocation Center. Presenting two shows of breathtaking skill and spellbinding beauty, the Golden Dragons will take the stage at 2 and 7 p.m. Tickets Tickets for the Golden Dragon Acrobats are set at a family-friendly $29 for adults...
A dizzying display of wordplay lies at the heart of the NIU School of Theatre and Dance’s first production of the season, opening Thursday, Sept. 23, in the Stevens Building O’Connell Theatre. “All in the Timing” consists of six humorous acts that are each an independent play. According to the School of Theatre and Dance...
The NIU School of Music will present a series of organ concerts beginning at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 19. The concerts will be presented on the Martin Ott Pipe Organ, located in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall. Sept. 19’s kick-off concert will be an alumni recital that features six former students — NIU graduates in organ from...
