Tag: New York City
NIU’s School of Theatre and Dance will present the powerful drama, “The Normal Heart” by Larry Kramer, as its first Studio Series production of the 2015-2016 season. Opening Thursday, Oct. 8, the play is set against the historical backdrop of the initial discovery of HIV/AIDS in New York City in the early 1980s. It recounts Jewish-American...
The Great Depression was named so for a reason. As the backdrop to its next theater performance offering, the NIU School of Theatre and Dance’s upcoming production of “Awake and Sing!” presents the idea that before the nation’s current economic woes, there were once greater ones. “Awake and Sing!” by Clifford Odets, follows the Bergers,...
The Northern Illinois University Alumni Association invites alumni and friends Tuesday, April 1, to Jazz in New York City. The regional event begins at 7:30 p.m. with NIU’s Rosebud Jazztet at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, fifth floor of the Time Warner Center, 10 Columbus Circle. Seniors and graduate students make up the award-winning Jazztet and are...
NEW YORK — Northern Illinois University quarterback Jordan Lynch (Chicago, Ill./Mt. Carmel HS) capped a record-setting career with yet another record by placing third in the 2013 voting for the Heisman Memorial Trophy to earn the highest finish ever by a player from the Mid-American Conference. Lynch, a dual-threat quarterback who led NIU to a 12-0 start and...
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...
Ron Carter, professor of music and director of Jazz Studies in the NIU School of Music, has a long relationship with legendary trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Carter is now featured in a video, produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center. An NIU institution since 1994, he serves as lead artist for the...
Over the past decade, the Northern Illinois football team has played in some of college football’s most storied locales, from Tuscaloosa, Ala. to Ohio State’s “Horseshoe” and “the Big House” of Michigan, not to mention Chicago’s Soldier Field. On Saturday, Sept. 15, Northern Illinois takes on the Black Knights of Army in West Point, N.Y.,...
Northern Illinois quarterback Chandler Harnish is in New York City today, where he will be honored tonight as one of the National Football Foundation‘s 16 Scholar-Athletes for 2011 at the NFF Annual Awards Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria. Already the recipients of an $18,000 post-graduate scholarship, one of the Scholar-Athletes will win the William V. Campbell...
NIU School of Music percussion professor Greg Beyer and his wife, flautist Erin Lesser, who collaborate musically as Due East, are about to release their second CD. New Amsterdam Records, whose name has become synonymous with the sweeping array of quality music across classical’s burgeoning independent scene, will issue the deeply expressive “drawn only once”...
The NIU School of Music’s New Music Ensemble, under the direction of Gregory Beyer, will be joined in November by New York City-based ensemble Yarn/Wire. The groups will present two programs of music by major composers of the 20th century. This multi-day event scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 1, and Wednesday, Nov. 2, will be the...
