Annual holiday concert coming next weekend.Byline: The Register-Guard CORRECTION (ran 11/30/04): The Fiero and Lyrica ensembles from Oregon Festival Choirs will sing during Hult Center lobby activities before the Eugene Concert Choir's Dec. 5 Christmas concert. A story on page G5 Sunday listed an incorrect group singing at that time. The Eugene Concert Choir Eugene Concert Choir is a non-profit choral organization based in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It consists of two mixed-voice choruses: the 100-member Eugene Concert Choir (ECC), and the semi-professional chamber group Eugene Vocal Arts Ensemble (EVAE). will sing holiday favorites, Christmas carols and excerpts from Benjamin Britten's St. Nicholas Cantata cantata (kəntä`tə) [Ital.,=sung], composite musical form similar to a short unacted opera or brief oratorio, developed in Italy in the baroque period. in "An Old-Fashioned Christmas" concert, an annual event that sold out the Hult Center's Silva Hall last year. This year's performance will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 5. Pre-concert festivities fes·tiv·i·ty n. pl. fes·tiv·i·ties 1. A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival. 2. The pleasure, joy, and gaiety of a festival or celebration. 3. will begin at 1 p.m. in the Hult Center lobby. These will include wassail and cookies, decorating activities, a brass ensemble, choral music by the Oregon Young Women's Choir and a carol sing-along. Diane Retallack will direct her 100-voice choir and elite Eugene Vocal Arts Ensemble (in Renaissance dress) in a program that also will involve the Don Latarski Band, singer Darlene Jackson, the Oregon Young Women's Choir (directed by Paul Westlund), the Lyrica and Fiero ensembles from the Oregon Festival Choirs (directed by Peter Robb), the Oregon Mozart Players Oregon Mozart Players is a professional chamber orchestra based in Eugene, Oregon. The orchestra presents six concert sets in a typical season, in addition to numerous small ensemble performances and recitals by guest artists. and La Vida Royale, a brass ensemble consisting of Ellen Campbell on horn, Dave Bender and Richard Berg on trumpet, Glenn Griffith on trombone trombone [Ital.,=large trumpet], brass wind musical instrument of cylindrical bore, twice bent on itself, having a sliding section that lengthens or shortens it and thus regulates the pitch. The descendant of the sackbut, it was developed in the 15th cent. and Michael Grose on tuba tuba (t  `bə) [Lat.,=trumpet], valved brass wind musical instrument of wide conical bore. .
Soloists for the Britten cantata will be tenor Guy Aydelott and Caleb Leuck. Tickets are $28 for the general public, $24 for seniors and students in section A, $23/$18 in section B and $15/$10 in section C. The box office number is 682-5000. |
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