Abendmusik

2024-2025 Concert Season

I Believe: Choral Music by Black composers

Sunday, February 23 at 7:00 p.m.

Honoring Black History Month, The Plymouth Choir, Nebraska Wesleyan University Choir, the St. Paul’s United Methodist Church Choir, and Westminster Choir join guest conductor Anton Armstrong in Robert Rays’ Gospel Mass, Margaret Bonds’ Credo, and a collection of spirituals. Featured soloists include Nicole Greenidge Joseph and Justin Payne.

Please join Pamela Starr, Professor Emerita of Music History at UNL, in the chapel at First-Plymouth Church from 6:00 to 6:30 PM before the concert for an overview of Margaret Bonds’ Credo.

A fundraiser for Bridges to Hope

Sponsored by Ray & Carolyn Zeisset with the support of Fern Adams, Alan & Pat Riggins, and Lois Thomas

**Youth Masterworks Festival: Requiem by Gabriel Fauré**

Monday, February 24 at 7:00 p.m.

More than two hundred high school singers and instrumentalists from across Lincoln collaborate to perform one of the most cherished choral/orchestral masterpieces of all time. The young musicians will be led by Anton Armstrong, conductor of the renowned St. Olaf Choir.

A fundraiser for Lighthouse

Sponsored by Dr. John H. Casey, Dr. Pamela F. Starr, and Susan Sehnert Stuart

Lincoln East High School Singers
Samuel Klemme, director
Lisabeth Wissink, director

Lincoln Southeast Court Choir
Riley Herringer, director

Lincoln Southwest Concert Choir
Samantha Costa, director
Andrew Jacobson, director

Norris High School Titan Singers
Wes Hansmeyer, director

Abendmusik Youth Masterworks Orchestra

Mozart's Requiem

Sunday, May 4 at 7:00 p.m.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was only 35 when he became ill while composing a funeral mass. Though left unfinished, the Requiem is a work of overwhelming power—at once intensely dramatic and deeply personal. Join the Nebraska Wesleyan University Choir and the Abendmusik Chorus and Orchestra for a preview of a performance they will take to Prague in June 2025.

A fundraiser for Community CROPS

Co-sponsored by Phyllis Martin Owen with the support of Foster Collins, Jr., Mike & Diane Dinnel, and Nebraska Wesleyan University

Thanks to these generous sponsors, Abendmusik’s 2024-2025 concert season is offered free, as a gift to the community, both in-person at First-Plymouth Church and online.

Jon & Joan Michelsen

Matthew & Ann Finkner

Lorraine Beadell Love

Rhonda Seacrest

Estate of Norma Somerheiser

Conant Family Endowment

Dr. John H. Casey

All Abendmusik programs, services, and activities are operated in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you need a special accommodation as a result of a disability, please call Lydia Fry at (402) 476-9933 at least 30 days prior to the event to assure that we can meet your needs.

Enjoy these 2023-2024 Abendmusik season concerts courtesy of our generous season sponsors

Youth Masterworks Festival

Thanks to these generous season sponsors, Abendmusik’s 2023-24 concert season was offered free — as a gift to the community — both in person at First-Plymouth Church and online at abendmusik.org:

Special Abendmusik presentation of the May 2022 50th Anniversary Gala Concert.

Available Wednesday, August 2 at 7 PM