University Theatre at Kearney’s season-opening production of “Orphan Train: The Musical” is at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Miriam Drake Theatre inside UNK’s Fine Arts Building. The University of Nebraska at Kearney show dramatizes the Orphan Train Movement that relocated an estimated 250,000 orphaned and homeless children during a 75-year period from 1854 to 1929. “Orphan Train: The Musical” features a 22-member cast playing 37 roles. About half the … [Read more...]
Inspired by eclipse, UNK alumnus Jonathan Jaworski writes song featured at commencement
By TYLER ELLYSON UNK Communications KEARNEY – Music inspired by a once-in-a-lifetime spectacle will be performed at Friday’s University of Nebraska at Kearney commencement ceremony. UNK alumnus Jonathan Jaworski wrote the song “ECLIPSE” to express his excitement for last year’s “Great American Eclipse” – a total solar eclipse stretching from coast to coast that was visible along a 70-mile-wide path across Nebraska. “I actually wrote the piece beforehand,” said Jaworski, who read about … [Read more...]
UNK faculty, students performing Sunday at ‘Piano Extravaganza’
KEARNEY – University of Nebraska at Kearney faculty and students will be joined by the Atlantic Piano Duo during the upcoming “Piano Extravaganza.” The concert scheduled for 5 p.m. Sunday (April 22) in the Fine Arts Building recital hall features UNK collaborative pianist Jayoung Hong, assistant music professor Beth Mattingly and piano students Seungwon Lee and Kangyoung Ban. The Atlantic Piano Duo is comprised of University of Nebraska at Omaha assistant professor Kristín Jónína Taylor and … [Read more...]
PHOTO GALLERY: Laszlo Nemes brings Kodály Concept to UNK, Kearney musicians
Laszlo Norbert Nemes, director of the Kodaly Pedagogical Institute in Kecskemet, Hungary, hosted a workshop Monday with UNK Choraleers. On Tuesday morning he will work with the Kearney High School choir as part of the Vocal Music Educators Workshop, then meet with UNK faculty and students for “Using the Kodály Concept to Develop Musicianship in University Music Students” in the afternoon. Nemes received his degree from the Department of Music Education and Choral Conducting at the Ferenc … [Read more...]
International students share food, cultures at UNK festival; Nearly 2,500 attend
By TYLER ELLYSON UNK Communications KEARNEY – Sujit Silwal knew he wanted to be part of the Scott D. Morris International Food and Cultural Festival the moment he heard about the annual event. The University of Nebraska at Kearney student performed regularly while growing up in Nepal, and this was an opportunity to use that talent to introduce others to his home country. “I just like going on stage and singing,” said Silwal, who recently transferred to UNK to study computer … [Read more...]
