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 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.
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