The opening concert of LSO’s 80th season conveys themes of home and homecoming with three quintessentially American pieces. Copland’s Appalachian Spring captures the optimism and courage characteristic of the American experience. Following a newly commissioned piece by Robert Sirota, the concert closes with Dvorák’s Symphony No. 9, the New World Symphony.

 COPLAND, Appalachian Spring
 SIROTA, Epiphanies for String Quartet and Orchestra
 DVORAK, Symphony No. 9 in E Minor (From the New World)

Tickets:
Adult: $25/$35$/45
Children/Students: $15/$21/$27

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Pianist Ann Schein, a long-time friend of LSO, returns to play the popular and virtuosic Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1. On the first half of the program, Pärt’s mystical Festina Lente adds a touch of minimalism to the concert, followed by Dvorák beautiful and melodic Serenade in D Minor.

 PART, Festina Lente
 DVORAK, Serenade in D Minor
 BRAHMS, Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor

Tickets:
Adult: $25/$35$/45
Children/Students: $15/$21/$27

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The fantasyland of magic is a popular destination for children of all ages. Join LSO and actor Tim Marrone on a narrated journey through the lands of classical fantasy favorites, including music from Disney’s Fantasia and from the Harry Potter movies!

General Admission Tickets:
Adult: $10
Children/Students: $5

The annual Holiday Pops Concert is performed under the baton of LSO’s Resident Conductor, Dr. Tyler G. White, director of orchestral studies and programs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The program of traditional seasonal favorites will include the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's University Singers, vocalists Dawn Pawlewski Krogh and Kevin Hanrahan, and a visit from Santa!

Tickets:
Adult: $25/$35$/45
Children/Students: $15/$21/$27

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Concertmaster Anton Miller is LSO’s featured soloist in an evening dedicated to Russian composers. Glinka’s opera Russlan and Ludmilla is based on a Russian fairy tale that is both charming and satiric, evident in this brilliant overture. Prokofiev’s glorious Violin Concerto No. 2 and an audience favorite, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, round out the concert.

 GLINKA, Russlan and Ludmilla: Overture
 PROKOFIEV, Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor
 TCHAIKOVSKY, Symphony No. 4 in F Minor

Tickets:
Adult: $25/$35$/45, Children/Students: $15/$21/$27

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LSO’s talented wind and percussion sections are highlighted in this concert. Mozart’s beautifully-crafted Concerto in C Major for Flute & Harp features our principal flute and harp players, John Bailey and Kathleen Wychulis. The lesser-known Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Richard Strauss is a musician’s favorite for its vitality, humor, and virtuosic solos from within the orchestra.

 MOZART, Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, K.384 (The Abduction
 from the Seraglio): Overture
 MOZART, Concerto in C Major for Flute & Harp
 STRAUSS, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

Tickets:
Adult: $25/$35$/45
Children/Students: $15/$21/$27

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For more than 20 years, the Madcap Puppets have entertained children across the country with their creative and exciting performances, with puppets reaching up to 12 feet tall. Join us to hear all of your favorite fairy tales, told in a unique and entertaining manner!

Don't forget to attend our free Musical Petting Zoo beginning at 1 PM - get hands-on experience with musical instruments from violins to flutes, tubas to trumpets.

 GLINKA, Russlan and Ludmilla: Overture
 ANDERSON, Fiddle Faddle; Plink, Plank, Plunk; and Forgotten
 Dreams
 ROSSINI, Guillaume Tell (William Tell): Pas de six
 BIZET, Carmen: Suite
 MOZART, Cosi fan tutti: Overture
 COPLAND, Hoe Down
 DVORAK, Slavonic Dance No. 7 in C Major, Op. 72

General Admission Tickets:
Adult: $10, Children/Students: $5

The Lied Center for Performing Arts is the venue for LSO’s final concert, Mahler’s breathtaking Symphony No. 2. The “Resurrection” Symphony is an intensely passionate piece that captures the full realm of human emotion within its sweeping scope. Vocalists Esther Heideman and Martha J. Hart, and members of Abendmusik, the Lincoln Civic Choir and the Nebraska Wesleyan Choirs, will join us for the work’s soaring final movement.

 MAHLER, Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (Resurrection)

Tickets:
Adult: $27/$37$/47
Children/Students: $17/$23/$29

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Read the program notes for Mahler's Symphony No. 2.