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Our 2010-11 Concert Series
October 24, 2010 - 3:00 pm
CINEMA & CLASSICS: A Celebration of the Arts
Masonic Center Auditorium
Hastings, NE [map]
Guest composer, Mark Watters, joins the HSO as we perform some of his selections including opening music from the 1996 Summer Olympics and American Heroes (both with video), his Rhapsody for Bariton Saxophone and Orchestra, and other selections. The program concludes with Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 9 in C major (the "Great").
December 4, 2010 - 7:30 pm
A RINGING AND SINGING CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION
Heartland Events Center
Grand Island, NE [map]
Heartland Events Center tickets are available at (308)382-4515 or ticketmaster.com. This performance is not part of the HSO regular season ticket package.
December 12, 2010 - 3:00 pm
A RINGING AND SINGING CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION
Masonic Center Auditorium
Hastings, NE [map]
The HSO is joined by the Hastings College Bell Choir at both the Heartland Events Center and Masonic Center Concerts. With audience sing-alongs and kids conducting the orchestra, this is truly a musical highlight of the Christmas Season.
February 27, 2011 - 3:00 pm
CELEBRATING YOUTH AND THE LIFE OF MR. LARRY MAUPIN
Masonic Center Auditorium
Hastings, NE [map]
Our biannual Nebraska High School Young Artist Competition winners join the HSO in the fitting tribute to one of this state's most influential music educators, Larry Maupin. Musical selections include several of Mr. Maupin's favorites such as Lalo's Le Roi d'Ys Overture and John Rutter's Suite for Strings.
April 17, 2010 - 3:00 pm
A CELEBRATION OF ROMANTICISM
Masonic Center Auditorium
Hastings, NE [map]
Husband and wife duo, acclaimed cellist Steven Elisha and violinist Larisa Elisha perform separate concertos by two great Romantic composers, Antonin Dvorak and Johannes Brahms. The HSO also performs Two Elegiac Melodies by Edvard Grieg and music of Frederic Delius.
Our Gifts to the Community
 FREE CONCERT
September 19, 2010 - 3:00 pm
THIS GLORY LAND: cELEBRATING NEBRASKA AGRICULTURE
Chautauqua Park Pavilion
Hastings, NE [map]
Along with Louie Eckhardt on the trumpet, the HSO celebrates the Nebraska farmers and ranchers who are the economic backbone of this great state. Featured selections include America the Beautiful, Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, and excerpts from Virgil Thompson's The Plow that Broke the Plains.
FREE CONCERT
May 6, 2011 - 7:00 pm
Celebrating composers as comedians
Masonic Center Auditorium
Hastings, NE [map]
Exploring the union of music and humor, our Educational Outreach Concerts include such works as What's up at the Symphony (an homage to Warner Brother's cartoons), The Typewriter by Leroy Anderson, A Musical Joke by Mozart, and Zoological by Claire Grundman.
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