Fall Concert – Sunday, October 20, 2024 – 7:30PM – UNO Strauss PAC
Join Music Director Dr. Joshua Kearney, Associate Music Director Keith Davis, guest conductor Sarah Aymond, and the Nebraska Wind Symphony for the first concert of our 48th season on Sunday, October 20th at 7:30 PM at the Strauss
Performing Arts Center at University of Nebraska at Omaha.
The program is loosely inspired by the 2024 Olympics and the longstanding relationship between the U.S. and France. This concert features folk and popular music from both countries. The concert begins with the inspirational and unifying anthem of the 1984 Olympic Fanfare composed by legendary American composer John Williams. Sarah Aymond, director of music at Iowa Western Community College, conducts Jan Van Der Roost’s Suite Provençale, a suite of French folksongs. We also present American favorites; John Philip Sousa’s Washington Post March, and Omar Thomas’ soulful and contemporary rendition of the classic Shenandoah. We’ll also highlight Leonard Bernstein’s playful and optimistic music from the 1954 comic operetta Candide, based on the French writer Voltaire’s satire of the same name. We’ve also included the exhilarating American In Paris by George Gershwin…listen for the taxi horns!
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2024-2025 Concert Season
October 20, 2024 – UNO Strauss Performing Arts Center – 7:30 PM
December 8, 2024 – UNO Strauss Performing Arts Center – 3:00 PM – with the UNO University Band
February 23, 2025 – Westview High School – TENTATIVE 3:00 PM – with the Middle School All-Stars and the Westview HS Band
April 27, 2025 – North High School – 3:00 PM – with the North HS Band
Summer Concerts with NWS Swingtones
June 8, 2025 – St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church – 6:00 PM
July 3, 2025 – Ralston Granary – 6:00PM (tentative)
All concerts are free and open to the public.
Donations of any amount are appreciated to help offset the cost of presenting our programs of fine concert band music.
Thank You! for Supporting NWS!
NWS relies on financial support from its playing members, concert patrons, and businesses and individuals from around the Omaha metropolitan area. These gifts help us to pay for rehearsal and concert space, music director and other staff salaries, new music purchase and rental, performance rights, insurance, replacement equipment, and so many other things.
Read the NWS Sponsor/Advertiser/Donor Letter of 2024.
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NWS Scholarships Winners Selected!
The 2024 NWS Memorial Scholarship Competition accepted applications through March 31, 2024.
Scholarships of $1,000 and $500 have been awarded to Ben Folkers, trombone and Elizabeth Ford, trumpet. NWS has sent funds directly to these students UNO student accounts for use in Fall 2024 .
See our scholarship recipients page to find out more about these talented musicians.
Your financial support can help us continue to provide financial resources to young people who participate in post college/university music programs. Be sure to select NWS Scholarship Fund for your gift on the payment page and specify who you would like to honor or remember with your gift.
See our Donation page for more details on the ways you can support NWS.
All NWS Concerts Are Free This Season!
There is no admission charged for any of this season’s NWS concerts.
The generous donations of businesses, playing members, and our friends throughout the Omaha area make this possible. Thank you for supporting NWS and our concerts this season and helping us continue to provide free concerts!
NWS Hosted the ACB Regional Connection
April 26-27, 2024 – UNO Strauss PAC
Read more about this event and the ACB at the ACB Regional Event page.
Read more about the Nebraska Wind Symphony‘s Grand Finale concert on the Season 47 page.”
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Giving Tuesday
Metro Area Opportunities to Support Great Causes
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The next Omaha metro area Giving Tuesday is December 3rd.
Join in with many other residents of the Greater Omaha area in supporting many deserving nonprofits, including the Nebraska Wind Symphony! To support NWS see our SHARE Omaha page
Thank you for your generous support of the Nebraska Wind Symphony, Omaha’s Community Concert Band.
Thanks to the support of the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment for their grant support.
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