Nebraska Wind Symphony

The deadline for our annual wind and percussion scholarship is approaching! Apply today!
Eligibility:
📖 Must be a full time college student
✏️Enrolled in a Nebraska higher ed institution
🎵 Enrolled in a music ensemble
🗓️ All during the 26/27 school year

⭐ ALL Majors are welcome to apply! ⭐

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Giving Tuesday is a global effort to inspire generosity throughout the world. The local effort is sponsored by SHARE Omaha.
Join the Greater Omaha area community in supporting many deserving nonprofits, including the Nebraska Wind Symphony! This year NWS would like to raise $3,000 during the early giving period as we work towards reaching our overall goal of $6,000.

Your donation this year helps continue to provide concerts with no admission charged, allowing more people to experience live music. Your donation also helps us purchase new music, replace and repair large equipment, pay our dedicated part-time staff, cover rehearsal and performance venue fees, and support special programs such as our Middle School All-Stars.

We welcome you to the thrilling start of our 49th season with our concert entitled, “Through the Looking Glass”

Sunday, October 19th | 7:30 PM
Strauss Performing Arts Center, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Dr. Joshua Kearney, Music Director, NWS
Keith Davis, Associate Music Director, NWS

🎟️ Free admission, donations appreciated!

🎵 The Nebraska Wind Symphony welcomes you to embark on a wonderful season of music and community lead by music director Josh Kearney and associate musical director Keith Davis. Throughout the season NWS will be joined by guests conductors and musicians from our local community and beyond. NWS’s first program of this season is an exhilarating and imaginative voyage filled with classics and lesser known gems. NWS invites audiences to come aboard and journey through the looking glass… ✨

The program opens with Malcom Arnold’s “Prelude, Siciliano, and Rondo.” The suite is a charming tour through folk-like soundscapes, featuring lush melodies, with the final energetic rondo propelling listeners into the next selection: “All the Pretty Horses” by Anne McGinty. McGinty arranges a folk lullaby into a delicate and sensitive rendition, evoking a lyrical, dreamlike atmosphere. Next, comes a striking change as the journey continues, with the rousing march, “The Thunderer” by the march king, John Philip Sousa. Ira Hearshen’s “After ‘The Thunderer,'" follows the march, painting a resplendent emergence from the storm. The mood and musical color transform with a movement entitled “Spiritual” from Robert Russell Bennet’s iconic “Symphonic Songs for Band.” Lively characters then join the mix with Franz Von Suppe’s tuneful “Poet and Peasant Overture,” a selection of music from a larger operetta arranged for the band. The piece evokes the adventure, playfulness, love, and humor found in the original work. Finally the voyage ends safely ashore with the lovely, Caribbean influenced, “Beguine for Band” by Glen Osser, a rare gem audiences are sure to enjoy.