For Immediate Release

January 18 , 2008

university choir concludes winter tour with january 20 home concert

LINCOLN, Neb. —The critically-acclaimed Nebraska Wesleyan University Choir will conclude its winter choir tour Sunday, January 20 with a free home performance.

The 90-minute program will feature Johann Sebastian Bach’s Motet No. 6, Lobet den Herrn. Included in this selection will be the area premier of Treasure Up My Commandments, an anthem composed by Nebraska Wesleyan Music Professor Dr. Jean Henderson and written by Nebraska Wesleyan President Frederik Ohles in honor of Ohles’ inauguration as the 16th president of the university. Theatre music selections will include an excerpt from Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus. The choir will provide the choral force for Nebraska Wesleyan’s upcoming Opera Theatre performance of the comic operetta. The program will conclude with the choir’s signature piece, Silent Night by Malcolm Sargent.

The choir kicked off its tour on January 8 and performed in five states including Missouri, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, and Nebraska.

Sunday's home concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. at O'Donnell Auditorium, 50th Street and Huntington Ave. The performance also marks Choir Director Bill Wyman's 400th concert while at Nebraska Wesleyan. He has taught at Nebraska Wesleyan for 33 years.

The choir's next public performance will be March 15 when they will join the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra and perform Bach’s emotionally-charged St. Matthew Passion.