Tag: music
So, who’s hungry? Um, everybody? The weekend will bring two opportunities for free food, not to mention plenty of fun and live music. Friday’s “We Are Huskies” Tailgate, scheduled from noon to 2 p.m. on the west lawn outside Huskie Stadium, offers a chance to relax with new friends and members of the university community...
Do you love to sing and are you looking for a creative diversion? The DeKalb Festival Chorus, conducted by Seth Houston, is looking for new voices. Two exciting concert programs are planned for the upcoming year. The fall concert, “This Shining Night” takes us on a journey from the darkness of the fading year to...
Direct from a phenomenally successful Broadway engagement, the internationally acclaimed Beatles concert, RAIN: A Tribute to the Beatles, will make its NIU Convocation Center debut at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24. As “the next best thing to seeing the Beatles!” (Associated Press), RAIN performs the full range of the Beatles’ discography live onstage, including the...
Registration is open for the fall semester at the NIU Community School of the Arts, sponsored by the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The community school offers year-round programming, with 80 teachers and 400 students who come from 50 towns and cities for classes, lessons and ensembles. Programs for children and adults begin in...
The NIU School of Music is happy to welcome Cecelia and Harold Kafer back to campus for a program of opera arias and transcriptions at 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18, in the Recital Hall of the Music Building. Their program will include pieces by Strauss, Mozart, Wagner, Massenet, Bizet, Puccini and others. Cecelia Kafer has...
Local families are invited Saturday, July 20, to a sock hop in the Duke Ellington Ballroom. Presented by DeKalb’s Just Make It Happen Productions, the “Mid-Summer Family Time Dance” takes place from 2 to 4 p.m. The sock hop features the Shananigan Dance Combo, which will play with clean lyrics, familiar melodies and sound levels “tuned” for...
NIU’s Cliff Alexis, steel drum builder and tuner and co-director of the world-renowned NIU Steel Band, is among four prominent percussionists chosen for induction to the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame. The induction of the quartet, all important figures who have shaped the percussion world through their innovations, performances and scholarly work, takes place...
Looking to stay busy this summer? Beginning June 17, artists of all ages will be able to hone their talents or learn a new skill at the NIU Community School of the Arts. PRIVATE LESSONS Private lessons will be offered on most musical instruments, as well as in specific areas of theatre and visual art....
When the Recording Academy and GRAMMY Foundation announced the quarterfinalists for its Music Educator Award, five alumni of the Northern Illinois University School of Music were on the list: Peter Barsch (MM 2004) Barsch teaches at Oswego East High School, Oswego, Ill. Gordon Krauspe (BM 1982, MM 1992) Krauspe teaches at Wheaton Warrenville South High...
Yao Lin came to NIU from China in 2009 to study piano performance with William Goldenberg, a Distinguished Teaching Professor in the School of Music. Tonight, the 25-year-old will make her Carnegie Hall debut in New York City. Her invitation to take the stage of one of the world’s most storied venues comes from winning...
Six students who are graduating from high school are performing senior recitals this spring, the NIU Community School of the Arts has announced. The six are Paige Phelps, Danielle Pivonka and Owen Ruff of Sycamore and Hanna Bingham, Erin McGaughey and Genevieve Smelser of DeKalb. All of the recitals are free and open to the...
The CSA Children’s Choir performs an original work composed for the group at the spring concert Wednesday, May 15. The concert begins at 7 p.m. in the Recital Hall in the Music Building at Northern Illinois University. It is free and open to the public. The commissioned work is called “I’m Nobody. Who are you?” and is based...
