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LMTA to Host 2017 Musical Extravaganza Entitled “Dance!” By Jo Riecker-Karl, LMTA, Karl Music Studio
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he Lincoln Music Teachers Association (LMTA) will host an “Extravaganza” on Sunday, January 8, 2017, at 3:00 PM. The event will be held at the O’Donnell Auditorium in the Vance D. Rogers Center for Fine Arts at Nebraska Wesleyan University, 50th & Huntington streets. This monster concert will feature a multi-keyboard orchestra and string ensemble composed of LMTA students of piano and string as well as the teachers themselves. Del Whitman, Music Department Chair at Lincoln East High School and string teacher at Lincoln East and Lux Middle School, will be conducting. Radio personality Joe Skare will narrate the event. This year’s theme is entitled “Dance!” The program will feature pieces representing a wide
variety of dance styles as well as music inspired by dance. Fourteen separate groups of students and teachers will play duets simultaneously on fifteen digital keyboards donated by Dietze Music House and several duets will be accompanied by strings. Each group will wear a different colored t-shirt bearing a logo with the event’s theme. The concert highlight will be the world premiere of a special work entitled “Vals Melódico”, commissioned by and written for LMTA by FJH Composer Martín Cuéllar, Assistant Professor of Piano at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas. The Extravaganza committee is comprised of a large body of LMTA teachers and is chaired by Chad Houk and Ashley Dailey. The event is sponsored in part by the Nebraska Wesleyan University Department of Music and Dietze Music House. The public is cor-
dially invited. General Admission component. The Extravaganza is tickets may be purchased at the held once every three years. door for $5.00 for adult; $3.00 for More information about this ages 4-16 and children 3 & under event and the Lincoln Music are free. Doors open at 2:00 PM. Teachers Association may be LMTA, a nonprofit organizafound at www.LMTA.info. tion, was founded in 1942 and will be celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2017. The mission of LMTA is to provide quality music instruction, continuing education, and mutual support among members and their students, while encouraging community outreach for the promotion of the arts. Each year LMTA Sponsors one or two major events to bring Del Whitman, Music Department Chair at Lincoln East High School and string teacher at Lincoln East teachers and students and Lux Middle Schools, conducts a group of LMTA together to learn and students and teachers at the 2014 Extravaganza. perform in addition LMTA hosts major events each year to bring students and to monthly meetings teachers together to learn and perform. with an educational The Extravaganza is performed every three years.
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