Current Season's Concerts

Season 2010 - 2011

LOVE IS IN THE AIR features the choir, soloists and small ensembles in a concert of love songs near and dear. Included in this program will be favorites "Love Is A Many Spendored Thing", "All The Things You Are", "Somebody Loves Me", "It's Delovely","Standing on the Corner" as well as movements from Brahms "Liebeslieder Waltzer" ( Love Song Waltzes) and PDQ Bach's comic setting of "It Was a Lover and His Lass". Lot's of appealing music is presented in this family friendly concert.

A Winter Spectacular
Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 3:00 PM
O'Donnell Auditorium, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE

This Civic Choir Christmas concert includes special guests the Nebraska Wesleyan University Choir, the Summit String Quartet, Waverly Intermediate School Choir and Richard Morris, organ. Featured will be "Magnificat" by John Rutter, individual selections by the Waverly Choir and the Nebraska Wesleyan University Choir and a carol sing with audience and the combined ensembles. Composer John Rutter has a fondness for Nebraska since his well known composition "Gloria" was commissioned by and premiered at First United Methodist Church, Omaha. It was this composition that established Rutter's reputation in the United States. He has continued to be one of our most prolific composers.

The Power of the Voice, the Majesty of the Organ
Sunday, May 15, 2011 at 3:00 PM
St Paul United Methodist Church, Lincoln, NE

This collaborative concert will feature guest organist members of the local chapter of the American Guild of Organists and the Lincoln Home School Choir under the direction of Dr. John Friesen. The Civic Choir will present two works for choir and organ, "Mass" for choir and organ by Louis Vierne and "Missa Brevis" for choir and organ by George Manos. A student of Franck and Widor, Vierne composed organ works considered to be brilliantly effective and served as organist in Notre- Dame Cathedral in Paris. George Manos is a contemporary American composer who taught and composed in Wilmington, Delaware. Neither of these masses are often heard. The AGO guild members also will perform solo organ compositions on the 49 rank Bediant pipe organ in the Saint Paul sanctuary.

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