Spring Concert – Sunday, April 16, 2023 – 7:30PM
UNO Strauss Performing Arts Center
Join us on Sunday, April 16th, 2023 at 7:30PM for our Spring concert. During this concert we celebrate Nebraska Wind Symphony founder, Darwin “Tony” Snyder, who passed away on January 2nd, 2023 at the age of 98.
The concert features works from the very first concert of the Nebraska Wind Symphony as well as Psalm 74 by Brooke Pierson (Consortium Premiere); Adoration by Florence Price; Delta Work Song: Spiritual and Dance by William Grant Still; The Cowboys by John Williams and Concerto in D Major: Finale op. 283 by Carl Reinecke performed by 2022 NWS Memorial Scholarship winner Paige Michaud. Guest conductors include former associate director, Dan Kingkade and Jake Senff, band director at Elkhorn South.
Tickets: $10 for seniors, $15 for adults. Free for all students and children under 12.
Tickets are available at the door or can be purchased online in advance.
Darwin “Tony” Snyder, 1924-2023
A native of Marathon, Iowa, Tony served in France and Germany during World War II. In 2020 Guillermo Lacroix, France’s Midwest consul general, presented Snyder with France’s Legion of Honor, the highest award for those who helped save the French republic. Snyder earned music education degrees from Morningside College in Sioux City and the University of Colorado. Snyder founded the Nebraska Wind Symphony in 1977 as a performing group for adults in the Omaha area, and he conducted the band for its first 18 years.
We gratefully acknowledge his foresight and dedication to a lifetime of music including forming the Nebraska Wind Symphony. It is wonderful that he recognized the need for a place where adults of all walks of life can come together and share the joy of making music in a concert band.
Contributions may be made to the Nebraska Wind Symphony in memory of Tony. Donations may be sent to the Nebraska Wind Symphony, PO Box 24114, Omaha, NE 68124. Or you can give online through our Donations page.
Winter All-Star Concert – Sunday, February 19, 2023 – 3PM
Horn-a-Plenty, UNO Strauss Performing Arts Center
You won’t want to miss this amazing concert! We provide a rich and exciting musical experience for middle school horn students this year, complete with guest artists and plenty of great horn music!
The concert includes Ralph Vaughan Williams’ classic Flourish for Wind Band and selections from Carl Orff’s tour-de-force Carmina Burana.
The wind symphony features guest artist Ross Snyder on Will Pitts’ Dynamo for Horn and Wind Ensemble. Guest artists Horns of the Heartland perform on Mozart’s Concerto No. 3 for Horn and Joseph Wilcox Jenkins’ American Overture.
The Middle School All-Star Horns join the wind symphony on Malcolm Arnold’s The Padstow Lifeboat, Kevin Day’s Ember Skies (guest conductor Lindsey Bogatz) and Ed Huckeby’s Horn-A-Plenty (guest conductor Deb Lund).
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Tickets: $10 for seniors, $15 for adults. Free for all students and children under 12.
Tickets are available at the door or can be purchased online in advance.
This concert is presented with the support of the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment
2023 NWS Memorial Scholarship Competition amounts of $1,000and $500 will be awarded. See our scholarship page for additional details about the scholarship and how to apply.
2023 application period is January 24 through March 31, 2023!
Congratulations to our 2022 scholarship winners; Paige Michaud and Seh Na Mellick! Read more about our scholarship winners by visiting our scholarship recipients page.
46th Season Concert Dates
Fall Concert – October 16, 2022 – 3PM – UNO Strauss PAC – 3PM tentative
Holiday Concert – “Making Spirits Bright” – November 24, 2022 – 7PM- Holland Center
Winter Concert – February 19, 2023 – 3PM – “Middle School All-Stars” – UNO Strauss PAC
Spring Concert – April 16, 2023 – 7:30PM – UNO Strauss PAC
Summer Concert – June 11, 2023 – 6:00PM – St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church
July 4th Concert – July 2, 2023 – location and time TBD
For details on past concerts this season visit our Season 46 Concert page.
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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.
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Thank you for your past and future support!
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Spring Concert – Sunday, April 10 – 7:30PM
This concert was at UNO’s Strauss Performing Arts Center on Sunday, April 10. Please join us for an evening of excellent music! Our concert program included two pieces arranged by guest conductor Dr. Jay Gilbert, Professor of Music and Director of Bands at Doane University. We feature Kendall Wooden, our 2020 NWS Scholarship Winner, on Marimba. The concert also includes the consortium premiere of Zoom by Scott Boerma and the epic Give Us This Day by renown composer David Maslanka.
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Concert hall doors open about 30 minutes before the concert.
Tickets are $10 for seniors, $15 for adults. Free for all students and children under 12.
The Box Office opens about 45 minutes before the concert.
You can purchase tickets online ahead of time as well.
View and/or download the flyer for this event.
For information about our other concerts, see the 2022 Concert Season page.
How did NWS cope with Covid in 2021?
We started the year with a series of Monday night Zoom sessions for playing members featuring these opportunities
Zoom Music – We our commissioned Associate Director and Composer, Keith Davis, to write a piece that can be performed by our members over Zoom. There is a lag in all of these interactive platforms that make group music performance a real challenge. We’re giving this a shot and plan to record Keith’s piece to show others one way real-time music can be accomplished.
Happy Hour – We did a bit of socializing. Took time to talk about things we all were doing and shared in a few online games.
NWS Seminars – Josh Kearney and Alex Wewel arranged for guest speakers to talk about music making in this time of covid. We explored how science is being leveraged to help us play together safely and other things that are happening around the US and elsewhere. We also watched a movie with a studio musician who commented about how the music was incorporated and help emphasize the story.
See more on our 2020-2021 Concert Season page.
NWS Memorial Scholarship News
2022 NWS Concerto/Scholarship Competition amounts of $1,000 and $500 will be awarded. See the scholarship page for additional details about the NWS Scholarship and how to apply.
2022 application period has ended and applications are being evaluated.
Congratulations to our 2022 scholarship winners; Paige Michaud and Seh Na Mellick! Read more about our scholarship winners by visiting our scholarship recipients page.
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