Lincoln Area Music Society prepares to present annual winter concert this weekend

 

[December 05, 2023] 

Vocalists and musicians from Lincoln and surrounding communities are making final preparations for upcoming performances at their 2023 Winter Concert. Lincoln Area Music Society (LAMS) Orchestra and Chorale will present free Christmas concerts on Saturday, December 9 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, December 10 at 2 p.m. at the Lincoln Community High School auditorium.

Rehearsals have been underway all fall, and audiences can expect beautiful renditions of Christmas favorites, both secular and sacred. The Chorale will open the concert with Meredith Wilson’s popular “It’s Beginning to Look Like Christmas” and continue with arrangements of “Sing We Now of Christmas,” “O Holy Night,” and a creative Christmas twist on a Mozart Canon.

In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the composition of the famous poem by Clement Clark Moore, “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas,” the Chorale will present this beloved verse set to music.

The Orchestra will perform pieces both classic and new including “Gaudete,” a 16th century carol, “Themes from The Nutcracker Suite,” and an arrangement of “Good King Wenceslas” by Chip Davis and Robert Longfield.

Orchestra conductor Calob Pluhm says that they will also present a new work: “Touji, translated ‘Winter Solstice,’ is a piece written by Michael Howard who will be performing in the percussion section. Howard is currently a senior in high school looking to continue his study of music in college.”

The finale to this year’s concert will feature the combined Chorale and Orchestra in an arrangement of “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.”

The LAMS Chorale is directed by Dinelle Frankland and accompanied by Kay Dobson. The LAMS Orchestra is directed by Calob Pluhm. LAMS welcomes everyone, not only to the concert, but any interested singers and musicians to join them in the new year.

 

[Stephanie Hall]