Madison goes to Christmas Concert

Madison Symphony Christmas Concert will be performed in early December.

Under the baton of John DeMain, the performance will include The Madison Youth Choirs, the Madison Symphony Chorus, and the Mount Zion Gospel Choir. Guest soloists will be soprano Evelyn Savedra and tenor Limmie Pulliam.

The performance will begin with Angels We Have Heard on High and Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B Minor. Next, the orchestra will play Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, Antonio Vivaldi’s Piccolo Concerto, and John Rutter’s Star Carol.

Cesar Franck’s Panis Angelicus will be followed by Cantique de Noel composed by Adolphe Adam, and Francis Poulenc’s Gloria. The first half of the show will end with Handel’s Hallelujah chorus.

The combined choirs will open the second half with a selection of John Williams’s Home Alone and Home Alone II movie scores. A musical version of “T’was the Night Before Christmas” will precede Peter Jaffe’s Symph-Hanukkah and Mel Torme’s classic The Christmas Song and Villancico Yaucano. Mt. Zion Gospel choir will close with Christmas Love, Christmas Peace, and Go Tell it on the Mountain.

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Madison Symphony Christmas will be Friday, December 1 at 7:30 pm; Saturday, December 2 at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, December 3 at 2:30 pm at the Overture Center, 201 State Street.



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