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45TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT SERIES 2017-2018

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Unforgettable performances MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with André Watts, Piano ............................................Oct.122017 Van Cliburn Gold Medalist ..........................................................Oct. 24Arturo Sandoval ........................................................ Nov. 29American Ballet Theatre with the St. Louis Symphony........................................ Feb. 16 & 17Berlin Philharmonic Piano Quartet......................................................... Feb. 21Snarky Puppy............................................................ Feb. 23Conspirare Presents: Considering Matthew Shepard ................................................... Feb. 25The Irish Tenors ........................................................ Mar. 16Olga Kern, Piano ....................................................... Mar. 27A Celebration of Philip Glass........................................ Apr. 17FOR A COMPLETE LISTING OF SHOWS VISIT LIEDCENTER.ORG 402.472.4747 | LIEDCENTER.ORG

WelcomeDear friends,We are grateful that you are heretoday as we gather once again toexperience excellence in the performingarts. What an incredible 45th anniversaryseason this has been, and, within weeks ofthe start of 2018, we will hear from some ofthe finest choral ensembles and conductors inthe world. Grammy-award winning Conspirareand Craig Hella Johnson bring the Nebraskapremiere of Considering Matthew Shepard; theConcordia Choir returns to Lincoln on theirannual tour with Grammy-award winning conductorand composer, René Clausen; Britain’s sensationalVOCES8 visits our area for the first time; William Weinertfrom the Eastman School of Music comes to lead our YouthChoral Festival; Emily Ellsworth from Anima Children’s Choirin metro Chicago comes to guide our Sing Around NebraskaChildren’s Choir Festival; and then Anton Armstrong from theSt. Olaf Choir comes to conduct the Nebraska premiere of JohnMuehleisen’s Pieta. What an embarrassment of riches! WOW!All of these programs that await us promise to bring a messageof hope and light even in the midst of the chaos and distress ofour world. It is my hope that your experience with Abendmusikthese next few months will inspire you to love morecourageously and empower you to befriend others morecompassionately as you make your way into this New Year.We hope that the music will bring us all more closely together--not just for concert day-- but for the days to come.Tom Trenney - Artistic Director

MISSIONGathering to experience excellencein the performing arts.VISIONTo enrich community andinspire collaboration.Staff Board of DirectorsDrew Duncan - Executive Director James Keim - PresidentTom Trenney - Artistic Director Wynn Mehlhaff - Vice-President Loretta Hellmuth - Treasurer Linda Zabel - Secretary Lorrie Beadell Love Lora Black Sally Buchholz Dan Crawford Mary Ann Erickson Mary Fischer Ian Fralick Ryan Luckey Jackie Mattingly Rob McMaster  Vi Schroeder Jan Settell Jeremy Spale Jason Varga

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20172018TICKETS ƖƖ Includesalltaxes,ticketingandfacilityfees&/$66,&$/ƕƕ30 &/$66,&$/ƕƕ30JOSHUA BELL & BRUCH ANTON & TCHAIK 5World-renowned violinist Joshua Bell joins LSO concertmaster Anton Miller takes theLSO with Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in G stage for a performance of Chausson’s Poème,Minor, preceded by Mendelssohn’s Overture to Opus 25 and Saint-Saëns’ Introduction andA Midsummer Night’s Dream, Schumann’s Fourth Rondo Capriccioso, followed by Tchaikovsky’sSymphony and Brahms’ Hungarian Dances Nos. Fifth Symphony.5 and 6. 3236ƕƕ30)$0,/<ƕƕ30 JANE LYNCH SINGSA FAMILY FOR TREBLE Three-time Emmy and Golden Globe winningTreble the dog needs a home! An energetic, actress Jane Lynch comes to Lincoln for a nightmusic-loving dog explores and learns about of music and comedy. Join us for an evening ofthe orchestra’s different instrument families music and laughs you won’t forget!as children help Treble find the perfect home. )$0,/<ƕƕ30&/$66,&$/ƕƕ30 CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALSIF IT AIN’T BAROQUE... Have you ever seen an elephant ballet?Maestro Edward Polochick conducts from Or encountered giant sea creatures inthe harpsichord while the orchestra performs a submarine? Look no further! MadcapBaroque favorites, closing with Bach’s Orchestral Puppets and LSO will bring the animalSuite No. 3, popular for its Air on the G String. kingdom to life with Saint-Saëns’ classic The Carnival of the Animals!&/$66,&$/ƕƕ30 &/$66,&$/ƕƕ30PHILIP GLASS & ELGAR BEETHOVEN 8 & 6Celebrate Philip Glass’ 80th birthday with thisspecial performance! Simone Dinnerstein and Join us for the second installment of ourLSO premiere Philip Glass’ newly-composed five-year journey to perform all nine ofPiano Concerto No. 3, followed by Elgar’s Beethoven’s symphonies, this year withbeloved Enigma Variations. Symphony No. 8 and No. 6.3236ƕƕ30 30 &/$66,&$/ƕƕ30DECK THE HALLS RACH ‘N’ BARTÓKKick off the season with LSO’s annual holiday LSO blasts the roof with Bartók’s Concertopops concert, featuring traditional pieces, for Orchestra, followed by Mark Markhamchoral classics, dancers, clogging, and a full returning to the piano to rock the housebell choir! Join us for an afternoon or with Rachmaninoff’s flashing—and fiendishlyevening performance. difficult—Third Piano Concerto.LINCOLNSYMPHONY.ORG

Sunday, November 12, 2017 3:00 p.m. Sunday, April 8, 2018 3:00 p.m. Sinai Lutheran Church, Fremont, NE Zion Lutheran Church, Pickrell, NESunday, November 19, 2017 3:00 p.m. Sunday, April 15, 2018 3:00 p.m. Grace Lutheran Church, Lincoln, NE Grace Lutheran Church, Lincoln, NE Free-will o ering. For more information you may view our web site at  www.lincolnlutheranchoir.org or Facebook to learn about upcoming events, or to learn more about singing with the Choir.Expressing the joy of our Christian faith by performing sacred choral literature with an emphasis on Lutheran heritage.

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Pietà by John Muehleisen GOOD FRIDAY • MARCH 30 • 7:00with generous support from First-Plymouth Church Anton Armstrong, conductor Plymouth Choir Tom Trenney, directorNebraska Wesleyan University Choir William Wyman, directorKayla Wilkens, Soprano Ross Hauck, TenorOboe/English Horn Percussion Darci Gamerl Tony Falcone Jeremy SpaleWilliam McMullen Organ Ariel Merivil

John Muehleisen, composer Composer John Muehleisen’s music has been described as “imaginatively harmonized… beautifully realized…and brilliantly crafted.” He has served as Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble’s Composer-in-Residence almost continuously since 1996, for the Dale Warland Singers (2003–04), and for Choral Arts (2011–12). He has received commissions from Conspirare, TheEsoterics, Harvard Glee Club, Northwest Girlchoir, Seattle Girl’s Choir,Seattle Pro Musica, South Bend Chamber Singers, and Volti. More than40 of his choral works have been recorded commercially, and his workshave been performed in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia. Awardsinclude the Louisville Orchestra’s 1988 Composition Competition, ThirdPlace in the 2013 American Prize in Professional Choral Composition,and the coveted Dale Warland Singers Commissioning Award for 2014,which he shares with Dolce Canto, conducted by Peter Park.Anton Armstrong, conductor Anton Armstrong, Tosdal Professor of Music at St. Olaf College, became the 4th conductor of the St. Olaf Choir in 1990 after 10 years in Grand Rapids, MI, where he had served on the faculty of Calvin College and led the Calvin College Alumni Choir, the Grand Rapids Symphony Chorus, and the St. Cecilia Youth Chorale. He is a graduate of St. Olaf College, the University of Illinois andMichigan State University. He has conducted ensembles and appearedbefore regional, national, and international gatherings of the AmericanChoral Directors Association, International Federation of Choral Music,Music Educators National Conference, Choristers Guild, American Guildof Organists, Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, Organization ofAmerican Kodaly Educators, and the Orff-Schulwerk Association.Recently, he has guest conducted ensembles as the Utah Symphony &Symphony Chorus, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the St. Paul ChamberOrchestra, the Westminster Choir, and the American Boychoir.

Music, Meaning, and Message in John Muehleisen’s Pietà An Introduction and Overview The word “pieta”—in addition to its association with theMichelangelo statue—is frequently translated as “pity.” Themodern use of that word has sadly acquired a negativemeaning; consequently, in this oratorio I have focused on itsmore profound connotations of “compassion” and “mercy.” Theword “compassion” literally means to “suffer with” others in anempathetic way by supporting them in humility and love. It mightbe considered the opposite of “abandonment.” This mutual loveand compassion is the life to which Pietà calls us. The oratorio presents various aspects of compassion andmercy in a way that provokes listeners to consider how wemanifest those qualities in our lives, lives filled with both joy andsuffering. We embrace joy, but struggle with suffering. Ultimately,Pietà offers answers to suffering and loss, and a path to healing.My hope is that Pietà will be both a collective and a personaljourney that provides a musical experience of emotional andspiritual intensity that transforms hearts and minds. Pietà was commissioned by conductor Robert Bode andChoral Arts in Seattle, WA and premiered in March 2012. I’mdeeply indebted to them for choosing to partner with me inbringing to life Pietà’s message of hope and healing, which is sodesperately needed in our world today. I’m also extremelygrateful to Craig Hella Johnson and to Conspirare for includingPietà and its timely message in this comPASSION festival. Pietà uses the central image of the relationship betweenmothers and sons as a metaphor for exploring the ways in whichthe virtues of compassion, mercy, and love can lead to healingour brokenness. Rather than playing out a single thread, the workexists simultaneously on multiple levels, cutting between themusing musical transitions akin to cinematic techniques such assudden cuts and gradual fades.Pietà unfolds across three different timelines: • The Present (Prologue and Epilogue) • World War I (Scenes One and Two) • Biblical Times: The end of the life of Jesus: His passion, burial, and resurrection (the Passion Interludes and Scenes Three and Four)

In parallel with these three timelines, Pietà plays out thenotion of mutual compassion and love in three concentric circles,radiating out from the center. 1. The outer circle (Prologue and Epilogue) is where we enter and exit the work. After stating John 14:1 (“Do not let your hearts be troubled”), we are immediately confronted with difficult questions about why our hearts should NOT be troubled. In the Epilogue those questions are answered, and we are given a message of compassion and hope that balances the despair of the Prologue. These two sections allow listeners to enter into the message of Pietà on a personal level. 2. The middle circle (Scenes One and Two) concerns the relationship between Jack Kipling and his mother Carrie by way of Jack’s death during WWI and the loss felt by Carrie. By extension it concerns the mutual love of all mothers and sons, which naturally extends to all parents and their children. 3. In the center circle, the relationship between Mary and Jesus is played out in Scenes Three and Four, which occur during Biblical times, encompassing Jesus’ time in Pilate’s custody through His crucifixion, burial, and resurrection. In Chorale 4 “Let me arise…,” Jesus’ resurrection is mirrored in our personal rebirth, which transitions into the more universal message of the Epilogue. The form of Pietà is based on the Passion oratorio, borrowingfrom Bach’s St. Matthew and St. John Passions. The plaintiveoboe and English horn passages in several of the movements ofPietà (1.2, 3.2, 5.2, and 6.1) are variations on the opening musicfrom the St. John Passion. Even Mary’s textless soprano soloand subsequent duet with Jesus (the tenor) in Scene 4 is basedon that music; its mournful, dirge-like quality perfectly suited toexpressing the pathos and sense of compassion in the scenesin which it is used. In addition, the first three chorales in Pietàdraw on chorales from the St. Matthew Passion, but with textsby World War I poet Wilfred Owen in the first two and by WilliamBlake in the third. One other unique feature of Pietà is the use of the PassionInterludes—Byzantine and Russian Orthodox hymns—whichwrench us back to Biblical times, reminding us of the Passionoratorio roots of Pietà. The stark juxtapositions of the PassionInterludes with the other two timelines weave the thread ofcompassion throughout history, both blurring the historicaldistinctions and unifying them so that the passions of Jesus andMary and of Jack Kipling and his mother symbolize our ownlives—our “passions,” our sufferings—making the message ofcompassion and hope in Pietà all the more universal andapplicable to all people at all times in all places.

Kayla Wilkens, soprano Kayla Wilkens recently performed as a featured soloist sharing the stage with celebrated composers Steven Lutvak and Stephen Bray, on tour with sounding light, and originating roles in two ASCAP award-winning premieres. Other recent productions include Into the Woods (Musical Theater Heritage), L’Étoile (Sin City Opera), Vía Láctea (Opera Bend), and SweeneyTodd (OmniArts).Her honors include awards won in the NATS NationalArtist Awards, National Musical Theater Competition, MetropolitanOpera Council Auditions, Lotte Lenya Competition, and theBailey-Argento National Vocal Competition. Her work as a soloistincludes Stephen Paulus’ To Be Certain of the Dawn, Bach’s Magnificat,Faure’s Requiem, and Bernstein’s Mass. After three years singing atFirst Plymouth, it is a sweet joy to return. www.kaylawilkens.comRoss Hauck, tenor Tenor Ross Hauck is a resident of the greater Seattle area, where he lives with his wife and four children. Ross’s training was at Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, with further studies at Tanglewood, Ravinia, Aspen, and Wolf Trap. His credits include concert appearances with the symphonies of Seattle, Chicago, Phoenix, Grand Rapids, Kansas City, Cleveland,and Cincinnati, as well as with the National Symphony. A regular withPacific MusicWorks (Seattle) and Apollo’s Fire (Cleveland), Ross is knownfor his versatility, often specializing in early music and oratorio. He is acellist and professor of voice at Seattle University, frequentlycollaborates with churches on faith-based arts programs, and leads aministry for christians in the arts. www.rosshauck.com

Plymouth Choir Tom Trenney, conductorThe Plymouth Choir sings each Sunday for worship at First-PlymouthChurch and can be heard on the church's weekly television broadcast,Reach Out and Live. The choir frequently appears on the AbendmusikConcert Series and has also been featured in several performances at theLied Center for the Performing Arts. The choir's rich history has includedfive international tours and performances with legendary conductorsincluding Robert Shaw, Randall Thompson, David Willcocks, John Rutter,Alice Parker, and Aaron Copland. Highlights of the choir's 2017-18 seasoninclude the release of the new Hymns from First-Plymouth (Volume 2) CD,three performances of the choir's annual Christmas festival (including anoutreach performance at the Nebraska State Penitentiary), this evening'sNebraska premiere of John Muehleisen's Pieta, and this summer's tour toWashington DC where the choir will sing at Kennedy Center under thedirection of Anton Armstrong. The Plymouth Choir has been calledtogether by God, and we pray that God may give us faith to sing always! Nebraska Wesleyan University Choir William Wyman, conductorThe Emmy nominated Nebraska Wesleyan University Choir is recognizedthroughout the United States and internationally for performing excellenceand repertoire rich in global diversity. The choir has undertaken ten foreignconcert tours and annual domestic tours. The choir has sung with AaronCopland, Randall Thompson, Robert Shaw, JoAnn Falletta, PhillippeEntremont, Thomas Wilkins, Edward Polochick, Eric Ericson, PaulSalamunovich and Sir David Willcocks and has performed concerts withthe Omaha Symphony, Lincoln’s Symphony, Munich Symphony,St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the National Symphony of Rio de Janeiro andNew York Westside Orchestra. Eight American Choral Directors Associationregional and national convention programs and NAFME conventionprograms have been performed. Opening dedicatory concerts wereperformed with Lincoln’s Symphony for the Lied Center for the PerformingArts and with Omaha Symphony for the Holland Center for the PerformingArts. The choir has sung three times at Carnegie Hall and twice at DavidGe en Hall.

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