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Members of NIU’s Marketing and Branding Committee need your help to choose a new logo for the university. The 2011-12 academic year will begin this fall with a new tagline – “Learning Today, Leading Tomorrow” – and a new logo that conveys a unified and consistent institutional visual identity. First, though, results from a brief...
Bryan Carter "Enchantment" CD cover art
The Bryan Carter Trio will perform a CD release concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 3, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of the NIU Music Building. The trio features Carter on drums, Reginald Thomas on piano and Phillip J. Kuehn on bass. Carter was the first high school student allowed to take music classes...
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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...
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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...
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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...
NIU Jazz Lab Band
The NIU Jazz Lab Band, directed by Rodrigo Villanueva, will perform two shows Tuesday, May 3, at the Jazz Showcase, 806 S. Plymouth Court in Chicago. Admission is $5 for students, NIU faculty and staff and musicians, and $10 for the general public. NIU School of Music faculty Art Davis (trumpet), Kelly Sill (bass), Ron...
The NIU School of Music will host a concert of music by NIU student and faculty composers at 8 p.m. Monday, April 25, in the Music Building Recital Hall. The public is invited and admission is free. The program will feature music by student composers Johnny Gifford, Kyle Krause, Kyle Stephens and Brian Wach. Music by...
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“We’ll probably remove what little varnish remains on the walls of the hall after the last gig we presented there back in 2007,” James Phelps said in reference to the sand-blasting, searing sound that will likely emanate from the Annex Group‘s presentation of RaWElectrics. “The word ‘raw’  isn’t in the title of this event for nothing.”...
William Koelher
Friday night's Avalon Quartet Concert has been canceled and will be rescheduled.
Seventeen-year-old violinist Laura Park, winner of the 2010 Arthur D. Montzka Young Artists Concerto Competition, performed recently with the Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Linc Smelser.
Members of the Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra presents their spring concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 30, with a performance of the “Titan” and “Jupiter” symphonies. The concert takes place in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of the NIU Music Building. The pair of symphonies are the first and last of two legendary composers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Gustav...
Dance Shoes
Professional dancers have numerous and diverse styles of dance at their disposal, but often do not get to showcase more than one at a time. The NIU School of Theatre and Dance will present such a variety of dance in the final mainstage show of the season, Spring Dance Concert 2011, from Thursday, April 28, through Sunday,...
William Koelher
NIU piano professor William Koehler will join the Avalon String Quartet as they complete their 2010-11 season at 8 p.m. Friday, April 22, in Boutell Memorial Concert Hall. The quartet will perform Harold Meltzer’s String Quartet and Steve Reich’s Different Trains, and then be joined by Koehler for Amy Beach’s Piano Quintet. The concert is free and...
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