Fall Concert – October 19, 2025 – 7:30PM – UNO Strauss
The Fall concert of this 49th season is an exhilarating and imaginative voyage filled with classics and lesser known gems. We invites audiences to come aboard and journey through the looking glass. Please join us at 7:30PM on Sunday, October 19th at UNO Strauss Performing Arts Center (6001 Dodge St, Omaha, NE).
There is no admission charged to this concert. Donations are appreciated.
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The program opens with Malcom Arnold’s charming Prelude, Siciliano, and Rondo. Listeners will then enjoy All the Pretty Horses by Anne McGinty, a delicate and sensitive rendition of the folk lullaby. Next is the rousing march, The Thunderer by John Philip Sousa. Ira Hearshen’s After ‘The Thunderer’ uses themes from the march to depict a resplendent emergence from the storm. The mood and musical color shift with Spiritual from Robert Russell Bennet’s iconic “Symphonic Songs for Band.” The lively Poet and Peasant Overture by Franz Von Suppe follows. Our musical voyage ends safely ashore with the Caribbean influenced, “Beguine for Band” by Glen Osser.
2025-2026 Concert Season
We welcome you to embark on a wonderful season of music for the community as we present our 49th concert season under the direction of music director Josh Kearney and associate director Keith Davis. Throughout the season NWS will be joined by guests conductors and musicians from our local community and beyond.
October 19, 2025 – UNO Strauss Performing Arts Center – 7:30 PM
December 7, 2025 – UNO Strauss Performing Arts Center – 3:00 PM – with the UNO University Band
March 1, 2026 – UNO – 3:00 PM – with the Middle School All-Stars
April 26, 2026 – Burke High School – 3:00 PM – with Beveridge Middle School
Summer Concerts with NWS Swingtones
June 7, 2026 – St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church – time TBD
July 3, 2026 – TBD
All NWS concerts are free and open to the public.
Your generous donation along with those of businesses, playing members, and our friends throughout the Omaha area make this possible.
Thank you for supporting NWS and helping us continue to provide free concerts!
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Giving Tuesday – December 1, 2025
We thank our generous donors for supporting us during Share Omaha’s Giving Tuesday!
Our thanks to SHARE Omaha for continuing to sponsor this giving event.
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Your donation 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. Thank you for your generous support of the Nebraska Wind Symphony, Omaha’s Community Concert Band!
SHARE Omaha’s Mission is to help nonprofits achieve their missions by inspiring support and serving. Their goal is to change the giving culture of the metro area.
NWS Scholarship Program
The 2025 NWS Memorial Scholarship Competition is completed. Congratulations to these students who have been awarded scholarships of $1,500 and $1,000:
Benjamin Prentice – Senior Trombone student at University of NE at Kearney
Kade Duering – incoming freshman F Horn student at University of NE at Omaha
See our scholarship page for more information about the competition and how to apply.
Your financial support helps us continue to provide financial resources to young people who participate in post college/university music programs. To support our scholarships, make a gift to NWS in honor of or in memory of a loved one or special friend. On our giving platform, select NWS Scholarship Fund and indicate who you would like to honor or remember with this donation. Or just make a donation to this fund because you like to help the development of young musicians.
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 venues, music director and other part-time staff salaries, new music purchase and rental, performance rights, insurance, replacement equipment, and so many other things.
Find out more about these ways to provide your financial support to NWS:
Direct Donation – Sponsor a Concert – Purchase a Program Advertisement – ShareOmaha Giving Events – Participate in a Giving Program and fund us through your normal purchases
Thanks to the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment for their grant support of concerts during each season.
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