Cottonwood Heights area prepares for holiday concert

A special concert is on the schedule near Cottonwood Heights, just in time for the holidays.

The Utah Symphony is once again giving concerts in Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City, a short drive from Cottonwood Heights. The orchestra will soon present Cirque de la Symphonie: Holiday Spectacular, with Conner Gray Covington leading the performance. The evening is a combination of music and the circus, as aerialists fly above the audience and orchestra, and jugglers and acrobats perform to the music.

The performers come from the Cirque de la Symphonie, a production formed especially to bring the popular cirque-style performance into the concert hall. The program is adapted from the performances that have been seen throughout the world, presented by various companies. Cirque du Soleil is no doubt the most famous of these circuses, but there are gifted artists performing this type of act everywhere in the world, and the Cirque de la Symphonie has drawn on this pool of talent for its strongmen, balancers, jugglers, dancers, contortionists, acrobats, and aerialists.

Every artist works with the maestro of the orchestra, choreographing their presentation using both popular music and classical favorites.

The Cirque and Utah Symphony will be presenting the concert on December 18, at 7:30 pm. Poster printing can be used to create festive and colorful advertising for events such as this.