Category: Music
The NIU Steelband will present its 2011 spring concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 17, under the direction of Liam Teague and Cliff Alexis. The concert, which takes place at School of Music’s Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, also will feature the Miami University (Ohio) Steel Band. Under the leadership of founder and director Chris Tanner,...
The NIU Philharmonic will help celebrate Homecoming 2011 by performing Saturday, Oct. 15, with multi-platinum, award-winning rockers Kansas at the NIU Convocation Center. “A Night with Kansas and the NIU Orchestra” will take place shortly after the conclusion of the NIU vs. Western Michigan Homecoming football game. Kansas, who began performing with university orchestras in...
Director Rodrigo Villanueva and the Northern Illinois University Jazz Lab Band will perform their last concert of the spring 2011 semester at 8 p.m. Monday, April 11, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of the Music Building The band will perform an eclectic and dazzling program featuring the strong incisive sounds of baritone-saxophonist Gary Smulyan, five-time winner of the...
Director Ron Carter and the internationally renowned NIU Jazz Ensemble will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 14, with Grammy Award-winner Randy Brecker on trumpet. The concert in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center is free and open to the public. Brecker’s trumpet and flugelhorn performances have graced hundreds of albums by a wide range of...
After its successful launch in April 2010, the NIU World Music Festival is back again in 2011. In this one-week long event, six full-length concerts featuring various world music traditions will take place in the NIU Music Building. The Middle Eastern Music Ensemble, a new student group added to the NIU World Music curriculum last...
NIU’s Art Musuem will host three exhibitions from Tuesday, March 29, through Saturday, May 14, which explore the sound of art. “Visual Art and Sound” features exhibitions and events that explore surprising interrelationships between visual art, music and sound, and highlight the artistic community of NIU. An opening reception for all three is scheduled from 4:30 to 6...
Classical WNIU will host a two-day pledge drive from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 22, and Wednesday, March 23. To raise the funds necessary to keep commercial-free classical music on the air 24 hours a day, WNIU conducts several brief on-air fundraising campaigns each year with the goal of turning listeners into contributing...
The NIU Women’s Resource Center will sponsor the DeKalb area’s second annual Rock Against Rape benefit concert at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 31, at The House Café, 263 E. Lincoln Highway. Admission is $5 for students and community members. All proceeds will go to the national organization PAVE, for Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment. Through art,...
NIU’s School of Music will present a concert of “Visual Music” at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 31, in the Music Building Recital Hall. The title of the program refers to the unconventional approaches to musical notation employed by the composers whose music will be featured: John Cage, Kyong Mee Choi, Robert Fleisher, Paul Paccione and Theresa Sauer....
NIU’s Latin Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of associate music professor Greg Beyer, will host New York City-based Columbia University ethnomusicologist, trombonist and bandleader Christopher Washburne and his ensemble, S.Y.O.T.O.S., for April’s Latin Jazz Weekend Party. Mark your calendars for an incredible series of events from Thursday, April 7, through Sunday, April 10, that are sure to get...
As the finale to its current season, NIU Opera Theater, in collaboration with the NIU Philharmonic, presents Carlo Menotti’s first English opera, “The Old Maid and the Thief.” Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 1, and 3 p.m. Sunday, April 3, in Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, located at 400 Lucinda Ave. in the NIU Music Building. “The...
The Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra invites all to enjoy the Arthur D. Montzka Young Artists Concerto Competition concert in celebration of the amazing talent found among Illinois young musicians.
