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The NIU Community School of the Arts invites people of all ages to the Music Building Saturday, Aug. 27, for CSA O’Rama. Families are invited to ask questions about the program, sign up for free sample music lessons, learn more about the Suzuki approach and attend sampler classes. All activities are free and open to...
Pretty Lights
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
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,...
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DeKalb County Clerk and Recorder John Acardo will induct 10 new members to the DeKalb County Veterans Honor Roll this week during the on Kishwaukee Fest USO Tribute Concert. The induction ceremony will take place during intermission of the concert, which begins at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 28, at the Hopkins Park band shell. The...
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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...
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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...
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,...
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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,...
Paul Bauer speaks to an Internet2 audience about the School of Music's use of that technology.
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...
Linc Smelser, music director, and the Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra receive a standing ovation after the Spring Concert performed April 30.
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
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...
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