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Join the 135-voice Napa High School Concert Choir and the Napa Valley Symphony Orchestra for a holiday music experience to be remembered. These musical talents are presenting “The Many Moods of Christmas,” a holiday concert at the Lincoln Theater on the grounds of the historic Yountville Veterans Home on Monday, December 14 at 7:00 pm.
The performance will be the eighth collaboration between the two musical ensembles, and will be the last time Asher Raboy, Napa Valley Symphony’s conductor, will lead the combined groups as he is retiring at the end of the current season. The two organizations last performed together in 2003.
Featured selections of the concert will be the first and fourth suites of “The Many Moods of Christmas” by Robert Russell Bennett and Robert Shaw which include arrangements for choir and orchestra of nine different classic Christmas Carols.
The Choir and Symphony will also jointly present “Arise, Your Light Has Come” by David Danner, “Angels We Have Heard On High” and “Joy To the World” arranged by Mack Wilberg, “Candlelight Carol” and “What Sweeter Music” by John Rutter and the “Hallelujah Chorus” from “The Messiah” by George F. Handel.
The Napa High School Concert Choir, Chamber Choir, Vocal Music Workshop and the Barbershop Quartets will also perform a wide variety of a capella holiday music.
The Napa High School Concert Choir is the largest of fourteen vocal ensembles at the school conducted by Travis Rogers and Jamie Butler and is composed of junior and senior students who have had previous experience singing in a NHS Choir. The group has toured internationally many times and will be performing in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, France by special invitation in March, 2010. The Choir has won numerous awards at international, national, state, regional, and local events. The Concert Choir and Chamber Choir have earned the first place award at the California Golden State Invitational High School Choral competition nine times since 1996.
Tickets for reserved seating are available for $35.00 each at the NHS music office, 2475 Jefferson Street, Napa (707)253-3705 or at the Lincoln Theater Box Office at 944-1300 or www.lincolntheater.org.
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