Arts

The Liverpool Legends will perform at Morton Magnet Middle School tonight at 7:00.

The group is comprised of musicians specially picked by Beatle George Harrison’s sister, Louise.  

Dan Mattran, Instrumental Music Director at Morton Magnet, says the concert will offer a complete Beatles experience with music that spans the Fab Four’s entire career.  He says the performance will feature Morton’s chorus and band on selected songs. 

"The students have been putting in time after school and during the rehearsals.  There’s a lot of buzz because it’s given us an opportunity to present Beatles music and the history of the Beatles and some of the things they did to change music.  So it’s been an educational experience.  It’s going to be a lot of fun.”

Last weekend, the Joslyn Art Museum opened To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum.  The exhibit explores beliefs about life, death and the afterlife.  With more, here’s KIOS’ Cheril Lee…

The Omaha Area Youth Orchestra’s Youth Symphony presents its Winter Concert Sunday at 2:00 in the Strauss Performing Arts Center.

Aviva Segall, Music Director for the OAYO, says the ensemble will present two classical masterpieces.  She says the Youth Symphony will play Mendelssohn’s “Reformation” Symphony and a transcription of Bach’s “Fantasia and Fugue in C minor.”  Segall says Mendelssohn was a fan of Bach and tried to bring that idea of counterpoint that’s in Bach’s music to the “Reformation” Symphony.   She says the transcription the symphony will play was composed by Edward Elgar.

A new exhibit at Omaha’s Loves Jazz and Art Center focuses on the African-American church experience.

The exhibit is called “Soul Sanctuary.” It’s a collection of images by photographer Jason Miccolo Johnson of the black church experience. Tim Clark, executive director of Loves Jazz and Arts Center, says the 50 portraits show the worship, energy, and spirituality present in African-American churches.

Clark says historically black churches have played an important role not just in the community, but in the civil rights movement. He says African-American pastors have shaped the discussion on politics and injustice.

Clark says north Omaha’s church leaders can play an important role in helping to address serious social issues throughout the city.

Film Streams offers panel discussions after three documentary film screenings this month.  With more, here’s Omaha Public Radio’s Cheril Lee…

An exhibit on Nebraska’s role in civil rights and a program on the history of the Omaha Star are among events planned at the Omaha Public Library for Black History Month.

One exhibit opens Wednesday at the W. Dale Clark library branch downtown. It’s called “We the People: the Nebraska Viewpoint.” Executive Director Gary Wasdin says the exhibit explores Nebraska’s role in civil liberties and civil rights through the years.“It explores legal cases and past historic incidents here throughout the state, including the trial of Standing Bear, which established American Indians as people under the law here in Nebraska, and Meyer versus Nebraska, which is a famous U.S. Supreme Court case from 1923.” Meyer v. Nebraska focused on the teaching of foreign languages in schools.