Post date: Dec 31, 2010 7:40:35 AM

Piano and string teachers from the Lincoln Music Teachers Association (LMTA) will present students in their major event of the year on Sunday, January 9, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. in the O’Donnell Auditorium at the Vance D Rogers Music Building on the Nebraska Wesleyan University campus. Del Whitman, Lincoln East High School Music Department Chair and string teacher at Lincoln East High School and at Lux Middle School, will conduct. Joe Skare, co-host on KBBK, 107.3 FM, will be the narrator.

Twelve separate groups of students and teachers will play duets simultaneously on fifteen digital keyboards. String students will also participate. Each group will wear a different colored t-shirt bearing a logo with our theme. A power point program, prepared by Claire Baddeley, will be shown during the performance.

The Extravaganza Committee consists of: Wanda Mandigo and Deanna McClintick, Co-Chairs, Marcia Wiebers, Donna Baddeley, Lois Burger, Aleta Collier, Debra Heald, Charlotte Heermann, Heather Hoops, Jo Riecker-Karl, Nancy Schoen, Nanette Taylor, Jentry Barrett, Shoira Khamidova, Jennifer Bailey, Pam Barger, Maria Holen, Barbara Jones, Vicki Harris, Marjorie Underwood, Janetta Semm, Chad Houk, William Maltas, Claire Baddeley and Jessica Freeman.

This event is sponsored in part by the Nebraska Wesleyan University Department of Music and Dietze Music House.

The public is invited. Tickets may be purchased just prior to the concert for $5.00 for adult and $3.00 for ages 16 and under.