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TMC Music for Brass and Percussion

Tanglewood Music Center

Get ready to experience history in the making with the world premiere of Tightrope by LSO’s Composer-in-Residence Elena Ruehr, praised by the New York Times for writing music “full of soaring melodies and piquant harmonies.” After intermission, pianist Simone Dinnerstein dazzles with Brahms’ majestic Piano Concerto No. 2. LSO also welcomes the Lincoln Youth Symphony to the stage for a side-by-side performance of Beethoven’s Egmont Overture.

A Tightrope Across Time

University of Nebraska - Lincoln

This concert begins with the world premiere of Elena Ruehr’s Violin Concerto No. 2 entitled ’Return’, and will be performed by Natalie Lin Douglas. The work was written as a response to a performance by Prof. Douglas during COVID, and it meant to convey a sense of returning both in physical presence and musical structure. Also featured is the "Variations on an Original Theme (‘Enigma’)" of Sir Edward Elgar, a series of musical portraits, both explicit and hidden, based on Elgar’s family and friends

MIT Symphony Orchestra: Return

Thomas Tull Concert Hall

Behold the sounds of the organ, an extraordinary and timeless instrument featured in Respighi’s Suite for Organ and Strings, followed by Omaha Symphony’s Assistant Principal Oboe and English Horn Heather Baxter and Associate Principal Trumpet Federico Montes make their soloist debuts in front of the orchestra in Copland’s Quiet City.

Maestro Conducts Respighi

University of Nebraska Omaha

After opening with Reznicek’s jovial Donna Diana Overture, LSO introduces our 2023-2026 Composer-In-Residence Elena Ruehr with the premiere of Unquiet Earth, a multimedia experience dedicated to Ruehr’s late mother, an environmentalist and filmmaker. The second half features pianist Mark Clinton on Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, one of Brahms’  most beloved pieces with its lush romanticism and beautiful interplay between soloist and orchestra.

Elena Ruehr & Brahms

Departmental Recitals showcase performance departments through its students. Featuring various students and repertoire, and curated by the faculty, performances in this recital highlight SFCM programs and the wide range of study. 

Brass Choir Concert

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

21st Century compositions for String Quartet by American women.

4 BY 4 FOR 4

Orangewood Presbyterian Church

After opening with LSO Composer-in-Residence Elena Ruehr’s Broadway Boogie Woogie, LSO celebrates the culmination of her three-year residency by presenting her newly commissioned Violin Concerto No. 3, written for the orchestra and concertmaster Anton Miller. Following intermission, LSO performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s magnificent and heroic Symphony No. 3 “Eroica.”

Elena Ruehr

Events

Upcoming events

May 2, 2026

Inspiration & Courage · Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra

Past events

Jun 29, 2025

TMC Music for Brass and Percussion · Tanglewood

Apr 25, 2025

A Tightrope Across Time · Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra

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