Tag: music
The NIU Community School of the Arts, sponsored by the College of Visual and Performing Arts, will offer several classes this fall in art and music. Teachers are faculty and students in the NIU schools of Music and Art. Need scholarships are available for those 18 and younger; the application deadline is Monday, Aug. 29....
Pretty Lights, a musical vision for music lovers of all subcultures and genres, will come Thursday, Oct. 6, to the NIU Convocation Center. Doors will open at 7 p.m. with the show starting promptly at 8 p.m. Advance tickets for Pretty Lights are $30 for either general admission or reserved seating. NIU students can get...
Switchfoot is set to bring its rock ’n’ roll family to the NIU Convocation Center at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Special guest Anberlin will open the show. Tickets are $20 for upper bowl and $30 for lower bowl and floor tickets. All tickets are general admission within the designated...
Faculty, staff and undergraduate and graduate women students are invited to join Women’s Chorus. Beginning today, the ensemble meets from 4:30 to 6:40 p.m. Mondays in Room 171 of the Music Building. Professor Glenda Cosenza is the director. No audition is needed; women must be able to carry a tune and enjoy singing lovely music,...
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...
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,...
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...
The DeKalb Festival Chorus, with guest artists the Prairie Brass Band and soloist John Campen, will present a concert for families at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 14, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of the NIU Music Building. The family-friendly, animal-themed concert is titled “Animato!” Chorus members have prepared an entertaining and educational program of high-caliber music literature in...
The NIU Community School of the Arts is taking registrations for summer. A visit to www.csa.niu.edu provides information about the day camps, classes, ensembles and private lessons that are available for children and adults. The semester begins the week of June 13 and runs throughout June and July. Most classes and all lessons are taught on the main...
The NIU Community School of the Arts has announced the recital schedule for the spring. Soloists and ensemble performances are featured in May on the stage of the Recital Hall and Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of the NIU Music Building. Most performances end with receptions. All are free and open to the public. CSJazz Band performs twice this spring. This...
