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The NIU Community School of the Arts awards six talent scholarships each year. Students currently registered for music lessons or who are in an ensemble with the NIU CSA are eligible to apply. Each award is worth $250. Applications for the CSA Talent Scholarship are due at the CSA office (Music Building Room 132) by 4:30...
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“Got Broadway Rhythm, Everybody Dance!” – the upcoming Northern Illinois University School of Theatre & Dance presentation – will feature eight dance numbers from several of the all-time most popular Broadway musicals, such as “Grease,” “RENT,” “The Pajama Game,” “A Chorus Line” and more. The shows open Thursday, Nov. 20, at the Huntley Middle School...
Join the NIU Community School of the Arts (CSA) for an evening of music performed by young local musicians. The CSA Sinfonia will perform a fall concert Wednesday, Nov. 19, at 7:30 p.m. in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall in the Music Building. The event is free and open to the public. Directed by NIU...
Avalon Quartet
NIU’s Avalon String Quartet will continue its fall season at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall. The program includes Brahms’ String Quartet No. 3 Op. 67 in Bb Major, the Debussy String Quartet Op. 10 in G Minor and the Garrop String Quartet No. 4, “Illuminations.” The concert is free...
NIU Jazz Lab Band
NIU and DeKalb-area high school students join instructors from the School of Music every year for a trip to the annual Illinois Music Education Conference in Peoria. The all-state event promotes life-long learning and leadership among music enthusiasts. In attendance are those widely considered the who’s who of high school and collegiate music programs across...
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The Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra will present a family-oriented concert, “The Many Moods of Music,” at 11 am, Saturday, Nov. 15, at the Egyptian Theatre, 135 N. Second St. in downtown DeKalb. A variety of music will be presented, demonstrating the many moods that music can convey. Tickets are $5; children younger than 13 are admitted...
Alexis Lamb and Greg Beyer
The NIU Percussion Ensemble will take the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall stage at 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10, performing a wide variety of exciting modern works for percussion. Under the direction of NIU School of Music professors Greg Beyer and Michael Mixtacki, the concert will feature Western percussion compositions influenced from musical traditions around the...
Alison Bastian
NIU continues to receive critical acclaim from the Illinois Association of Museums.
Marquis Hill
UPDATE: Marquis Hill is the winner! Congratulations! Marquis Hill, a 2009 alumnus of the NIU School of Music, is a semifinalist in the Thelonius Monk International Jazz Competition. Widely regarded as the most prestigious jazz competition in the world, this year’s competition is strictly for trumpeters. Hill will join 12 other trumpeters Saturday, Nov. 8,...
Kristen Myers
Kristen Myers, a professor of sociology and director of Women’s Studies at Northern Illinois University, will present a multimedia lecture titled, “Mean Girls, Manly Boys: Anti-feminist Messages in Kids T.V.” at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 4, in Room 315 of Altgeld Hall. Myers, a 2014 Presidential Teaching Professor, focuses her research on privileges and disadvantages,...
Huskie Marching Band color guard
Come relive the musical highlights of football halftime shows Thursday, Nov. 6, when the NIU Huskie Marching Band performs its annual year-end concert at the Convocation Center. The marching band, the drumline, the color guard and the Silverettes will present favorite pieces from this autumn’s Brigham Field extravaganzas as well as some of the familiar...
NIU art students paint outside the Music Building during class.
The campus community and general public are invited to a reception celebrating Northern Illinois University’s student artists from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday evening, followed by an evening of poetry as the NIU Art Museum presents a poetry reading and recitation night in Altgeld 315 from 7:30 to 8:45 p.m. Each academic year, NIU undergraduate artwork is...
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