SUN · 7:30pm
UNO New Music Ensemble Concert
Strauss Performing Arts Center
SUN · 2:30pm
OAYO Youth Symphony Concert
Sunday, November 1 at Strauss Performing Arts Center, Omaha
About this event
Choose Your Own Ticket Price - $0 and up!! (For those choosing to pay more than $0, cash, credit card and checks will be accepted at the door.) PARKING: There is open parking (no permit required) on weekends across the Dodge Campus, including all surface lots and the East and West Garages. Click here for more details including a campus map.
Who's playing
The Youth Symphony is the advanced orchestra of the Omaha Area Youth Orchestras, a nonprofit that grew out of a youth symphony begun in the 1950s. It is led by conductor Matthew J. Brooks. The students rehearse as a full orchestra and take on the kind of repertoire a professional symphony plays. Each year the group also performs side by side with the Omaha Symphony.
What to expect
A full youth orchestra concert in the Strauss concert hall, a 422-seat room built for acoustic music. The hall is also home to a Casavant organ. Audiences are mostly families, friends and music teachers. The hall is small enough that you can see the players' faces from most seats.
Why go
Hearing a youth orchestra at this level is a good look at the next generation of Omaha musicians. OAYO draws students from across the Omaha and Council Bluffs area. The pay-what-you-can ticket model keeps the concert open to anyone curious about classical music, and it makes a low-pressure outing for a family.
Where
Strauss Performing Arts Center · 6305 University Drive North · Omaha NEDirections
