ISU Holiday Festival
| Date/Time: | Sunday, 05 Dec 2010 from 4:00 pm to 5:50 pm |
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| Location: | Stephens Auditorium |
| Cost: | $10.00 adults; $5.00 students. Tickets available at the door or the Stephens Box Office. |
| Contact: | Tammy Krock |
| Phone: | 515-294-3831 |
| Channel: | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Categories: | Arts, performances |
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55th ANNUAL HOLIDAY FESTIVAL CONCERT AT IOWA STATE
AMES, Iowa - The 55th annual Iowa State University Holiday Festival will feature the ISU Symphony Orchestra and more than 300 voices from four Iowa State choirs - the Iowa State Singers, the Iowa Statesmen, Cantamus and Lyrica - on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010 beginning at 4:00 p.m. in C.Y. Stephens Auditorium
The 65-voice Iowa State Singers will sing arrangements of traditional carols along with the Iowa Statesmen, comprised of 114 men's voices.
Cantamus, Iowa State's select women's choir, will sing a commissioned work by Japanese composer Ko Matsushita, There is no Rose, accompanied by faculty member Dr. Kevin Schilling on oboe. Tomorrow Will be My Dancing Day with harp, and Wolcum Yole are among the selections that the 85-voice women's choir Lyrica will perform.
James Rodde, director of choral studies, and Kathleen Rodde, adjunct professor in the Department of Music, direct the four choirs. The choir piano accompanists include music majors Michael Bagby from Dubuque, Iowa and Jenna Braaksma from Ocheyedan, Iowa.
The 70 member ISU Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Jacob Harrison will present a collection of holiday favorite's including Bugler's Holiday by Leroy Anderson, The Skaters Waltz by Waldteufel, the Irvin Berlin Christmas classic, White Christmas, and Rimsky-Korsakov's "Polonaise" from Christmas Eve.
The concert will conclude with all four Iowa State choirs joining the ISU Symphony Orchestra onstage in the performance of selections from Randol Bass's Praeludium Noel and John Rutter's Magnificat. During the concert, the audience will also be invited to join the choirs in the singing of traditional holiday carols.
General admission tickets for the Holiday Festival are $10 for adults and $5 for Iowa State students and children 17 and under. Tickets are available at the door the day of the performance.
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