Mazzoli & Weill

Lowell Liebermann’s showcase of the extraordinary range of the orchestra’s smallest instrument centers this All-American program.

The Joslyn
Sunday, Mar 2 | 2:00 PM
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Artists

Maurice Cohn Conductor More
Lisa Meyerhofer Third Flute and Piccolo More

Program Info

  • MISSY MAZZOLI: These Worlds In Us

  • LOWELL LIEBERMANN: Concerto for Piccolo and Orchestra

  • ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD: Theme and Variations, Op. 42

  • KURT WEILL: Symphony No. 2

Missy Mazzoli’s work returns to the Witherspoon with These Worlds In Us, intense, emotional writing for chamber orchestra. Omaha Symphony Third Flute & Piccolo player, Lisa Meyerhofer, takes on Lowell Liebermann’s Concerto for Piccolo and Orchestra, highlighting the range of the orchestra’s smallest instrument. Kurt Weill’s Symphony No. 2 closes the program, a 20th century masterpiece written after his escape of Nazi Germany in 1933.

Join us for a preconcert talk!

  • 1 p.m. art talk with Joslyn staff: Tom Jones’s series Ho-Chunk Veterans Memorials, 1999–present, with Annika J. Johnson, PhD, Stacy and Bruce Simo Curator of Native American Art
  • 1:25 pm talk with Omaha Symphony staff

Maurice Cohn in action!

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