Music Performances

All musical performances are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

Vive La France: Lincoln Civic Orchestra

Sunday, February 23 at 4 p.m. 
O’Donnell Auditorium, Vance D. Rogers Center for Fine Arts

With this program, the Lincoln Civic Orchestra exclaims, "Vive La France!" The concert will begin with the Overture to Orpheus of the Underworld by French composer Jacques Offenbach. The string section will play an arrangement of highlights from Michael Giacchino's film score to Ratatouille. The performance will close with Maurice Ravel's popular orchestral showpiece, Ravel, during which virtually all sections of the orchestra will be featured as a singular melody is passed around the orchestra while a contagious ostinato plays beneath it.

I Believe: Celebrating Music of Black Composers

Sunday, February 23 at 7 p.m. 
First-Plymouth Church, 2000 D Street, Lincoln

NWU's University Choir joins the Plymouth Choir and St. Paul's Choir in a program conducted by Anton Armstrong, conductor of the renowned St. Olaf Choir. Repertoire includes Robert Ray's Gospel Mass and the Nebraska premiere of Margaret Bonds' Credo. Donations will be received to benefit Bridges to Hope.

NWU Bands Winter Performance

Wednesday, March 19 at 7 p.m. 
O’Donnell Auditorium, Vance D. Rogers Center for Fine Arts

The NWU Symphonic Band and Jazz Ensemble present their winter concert.

Cinematic Adventures: Lincoln Civic Orchestra

Sunday, April 13 at 4 p.m. 
O’Donnell Auditorium, Vance D. Rogers Center for Fine Arts

The Lincoln Civic Orchestra takes the audience to the movies! Before the invention of the moving picture, composers began composing "programmatic" music designed to tell specific stories, or reflect specific images. Ottorino Respighi's Pines of Rome is such a work, and the orchestra will begin the concert with a performance of its finale; The Pines of the Appian Way. The orchestra will then move forward in time, celebrating highlights from recent film scores such as Pirates of the Carribean, Apollo 13, Band of Brothers, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars.

Spring Celebration: NWU Bands

Wednesday, April 16 at 7 p.m. 
O’Donnell Auditorium, Vance D. Rogers Center for Fine Arts

The NWU Symphonic Band and Jazz Ensemble celebrate their spring performance together in O’Donnell.

NWU's Big Sing!

Sunday, April 27 at 7 p.m. 
O’Donnell Auditorium, Vance D. Rogers Center for Fine Arts

More than 300 singers offer a vibrant and colorful program of choral music. NWU's four choirs will be joined by vocal ensembles from Lincoln's Standing Bear High School, Bennington High School, and Iowa's Shenandoah High School.

Mozart's Requiem

Sunday, May 4 at 7 p.m. 
First-Plymouth Church, 2000 D Street, Lincoln

In anticipation of their performance at the Church of Sts. Simon Jude in Prague, the Nebraska Wesleyan University Choir will sing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's iconic Requiem with singers from First-Plymouth Church and Hastings College and a chamber orchestra. Donations will be received to benefit Community Crops.

NWU Commencement 

Saturday, May 10
O’Donnell Auditorium, Vance D. Rogers Center for Fine Arts

The Music Department joins the rest of the university in celebrating the achievement of our graduates. The University Choir will sing for the Baccalaureate service at First United Methodist Church, and the Symphonic Band will play before and during the commencement ceremony in Abel Stadium.

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