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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

OOPS

Sorry, next Monday Jason will be talking on  NPR's Morning Edition not All Things Considered. Does anyone else have Wednesday's like this?

Sounds, Sights and Music

Tune your radios to All Things Considered on Monday 5th November at 8:30am during your drive to work, and hear our Artistic Director, Jason DeWater talking about the Omaha Consort and its new season. And if that isn't enough for you, turn on your TVs on Tuesday 6th at 9:00am and watch him on Morning Blend, Channel 3, still telling everyone how great the Omaha Consort is, and maybe get a sneak preview of the music.
And finally, come along to the Joslyn Castle on Thursday 8th at 6:30 and watch him actually playing with the fantastic musicians in the Omaha Consort.
A whole week of Jason!
Tickets ($20)  from OmahaConsort.org or at the door.

Saturday, October 13, 2012

2012/2013 Season.
A New Home

We are just finishing up the details of our next season and it's going to be a blast. Jason has put together a series of concerts with pieces by the great masters, many of which are actually premiering live in Omaha.
Phil Smith is our Composer in Residence for this season and we are expecting fireworks from his pen. Many of you will remember that last season he wrote a brilliant new piece for the horn that taxed Jason to the extreme. We are holding our breath to see what he comes up with next.
Our latest news is that we are moving venues in 2013. The Joslyn Castle, which was our base for the 2011/2012 season is getting too small for our musicians and audience. We love the ambiance and the sound in the music room but if we have several musicians AND Madrigali et al in there, then there is really no room for the audience, and anyone sitting on the second row of the balcony can't see the players.
So from January 2013 we have arranged to hold our concerts in the small, restored theater at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center at 20th and Douglas. Jason tells me that the Scottish Rite theater is the same size as the theater in Vienna where Haydn and Mozart performed their works.
Much more about this later.
In the meantime...our first concert on November 8th will still be in our old home at the Joslyn Castle.
I look forward to seeing you all there for some great music.