Event: Learn all about Severe Weather and what you can do to when severe weather strikes. Tornado information, spotter information. Learning events for children and adults. ALL YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT SEVERE WEATHER NEW THIS YEAR! We have added a regional photo show and a photo contest for young people (17 and under) for photos depicting Natural Resources, Weather events, people interacting with nature, etc. Forms to enter are available @ http://www.lincolncameraclub.org. This event is co-sponsored by the School of Natural Resources and the Lincoln Camera Club.

UNL School of Music presents Christopher Marks, in an organ recital. Christopher Marks will perform organ works of the 20th century New York composer and organist Seth Bingham. The performance celebrates the release of Marks' new recording of Bingham's works on a Raven CD, which will be available at the recital. “Organ Works of Seth Bingham, Vol. 1, ‘Unto the Hills’” is the first entire CD devoted to the organ works of Seth Bingham. It is the first CD of an anticipated three CDs in an integral set of Bingham’s organ works to be recorded by Marks and released on the Raven label. It is available online for immediate delivery from www.RavenCD.com for $14.98 with free delivery worldwide and also from the Organ Historical Society. Volume 1 will be released through record stores and other sources in May. The recording was made on the Lied organ at First-Plymouth Congregational Church in Lincoln, Nebraska. This four-manual, 110-rank organ of symphonic inspiration was built in 1997 by Schoenstein & Co. organ builders, and offers many of the special tonal and dynamic effects suggested in Bingham’s music. The Lied organ perfectly embodies the symphonic tonal capabilities similar to those prevalent at the time of Bingham’s compositions and as had been incorporated into the 1923 Casavant Bingham designed for his church, Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City. Seth Bingham prolifically composed works for orchestra, choir, organ, chamber ensembles, and voice throughout a distinguished career as professor of composition at Columbia University 1920-54 and lecturer at the School of Sacred Music of Union Theological Seminary 1953-1965. A student of Horatio Parker (composition) and Harry Benjamin Jepson (organ) at Yale, he taught theory and composition there 1907-1919. In Paris and Berlin 1906-07, he studied with Vincent d’Indy, Alexandre Guilmant, and Charles-Marie Widor, and met and married the musician Blanche Guy of Paris. He returned to France frequently for family visits and to maintained an active acquaintance with French composers of the time, including Widor, Vierne, Dupré, Duruflé, Langlais, etc. Bingham was a frequent contributor of articles to The Diapason, and served the American Guild of Organists as vice-president, chairman of the Convention and Expansion Committee, and as a member of the AGO Examination Committee. He received an honorary doctorate from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1952 and thereafter was known as “Doctor Bingham.” according to family members. The first CD volume includes four major suites published in the period 1937 to 1951: Pastoral Psalms, op. 30; Five Pieces, op. 36; Baroques, op. 41; and Variation Studies, op. 54. The well-known “Rhythmic Trumpet” and “Bells of Riverside” are among the pieces in these suites that also include similarly colorful works. “The influence of the French style abounds in Bingham’s organ music,” said Marks, “and the intersection of the French symphonic style with orchestral transcription style is typical of Bingham’s works and is evident in the 1923 Casavant he designed for his New York church.” Bingham was organist of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City 1913-1951. Marks said that the great surprise on the first volume is the musical quality of the least known Variation Studies, op. 54. “It is hard to imagine why the Variation Studies have largely escaped notice,” he said. “This well-crafted set of variations on an original theme explores a staggering variety of styles, registrations, and textures. The piece was dedicated to Harold Gleason and edited and fingered by Catharine Crozier.” Tickets: General admission $5, student/senior $3, available at the door approx. one hour before the performance.