On Sunday, October 9 at 3:00 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall, the UNL Symphony Orchestra opens its 2016-17 concert season with a program of music by Haydn, Kodály, and Enescu. The concert, the direction of Director of Orchestras Tyler Goodrich White, opens with one of the most famous and beloved of Joseph Haydn’s “London” symphonies, the Symphony No. 101 in D major (“The Clock”). Also on the program is the colorful Háry János Suite of Zoltán Kodály, and George Enescu’s Romanian Rhapsody No. 1.

Members of the Symphony Orchestra include students from throughout the university. The ensemble’s objectives are to prepare and present a wide variety of repertoire including chamber, symphonic, and operatic masterworks, and to maintain professional standards of musicianship and etiquette within a collegial and supportive educational atmosphere.