The American composer, Irving Berlin, will be celebrated in an evening of song performed by the School of Music's Voice Faculty: Alisa Belflower, Kate Butler, Ariel Bybee, Kevin Hanrahan, Donna Harler-Smith, William Shomos and Therees Hibbard (Choral Faculty). Also performing are UNL's advanced vocal students and returning alumni. The Dean of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts and pianist extraordinaire, Jack Oliva, will serve as accompanist for a range of both familiar and unfamiliar tunes, including "White Christmas," "Easter Parade," "Let Yourself Go," "God Bless America," and "Blue Skies"--to name only a few of Irving Berlin's hits. Irving Berlin is most well-known for his musicals for stage and screen: Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Madam, Easter Parade, and Holiday Inn-which together reflect only a small fraction of his award-winning compositions. Berlin wrote the words and music to over three thousands songs. He had a gift for melodies that spoke to and stuck with the American public, who made him the composer with the most sheet music sales during the middle of the twentieth century. The celebrated composer, Jerome Kern, once explained, "Irving Berlin has no place in American music. He is American music." UNL's Coordinator of Musical Theatre Studies and host of this celebration, Alisa Belflower will guide the audience through the evening of song with colorful stories from Berlin's life and work. Come out to hear beautiful ballads of love won and lost, tunes that tug at the heart, and toe-tapping numbers to make your spirits dance. Tickets: General admission $5, student/senior $3, available at the door approx. one hour before the performance.