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NHSO POPS! PRESENTS HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA
New Haven, CT, November 2, 2009: Associate Conductor Gerald Steichen leads the NHSO Pops! in Holiday Extravaganza, a holiday season concert celebration packed with yuletide cheer on Friday, December 11, 7:30pm, at East Haven High School. Encore Performances: Saturday, December 12, 7:30pm, Hamden Middle School; Sunday, December 13, 3:00pm, Shelton Intermediate School; and Saturday, December 19, 8:00pm, Quick Center for the Performing Arts, Fairfield University.
On the program is a blend of seasonal favorites featuring your own NHSO Pops! and guest artists the Elm City Girls’ Choir and soprano Lorraine Ernest. Highlights include, Carol of the Bells, The Christmas Song, White Christmas, and many more. Rounding out the New Haven holiday tradition is the long-standing NHSO Sing-a-Long.
The Elm City Girls’ Choir is New England’s most highly acclaimed girls’ choral program. The Choir has received national recognition and has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Walt Disney World, and on CBS Television. Since its founding in 1993, ECGC has performed with many respected choral ensembles, including the New York Virtuoso Singers, CONCORA, Yale Schola Cantorum, Yale Glee Club, Yale Camerata, Trinity Boys Choir, Newark Boys’ Chorus, and Village Harmony, and with such orchestras as the Boston Philharmonic, New Haven Symphony, Yale Symphony, and Moscow State Orchestra. ECGC is the premier ensemble of United Choir School LLC, a private, non-sectarian educational institution that provides musical training and performance opportunities to over 500 talented young musicians, ages 6-18. In addition to the Elm City Girls’ Choir, United Choir School operates satellite ensembles (United Girls’ Choir) in Branford, Cheshire, Clinton, Hamden, Killingworth, Madison, Milford, North Haven and Shelton. The School’s mission is to foster a deep commitment to the realization of personal and artistic potential in an environment that engenders cooperation, creativity, self-discipline, and, above all, an earnest respect for all people.
As Queen of the Night in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Lorraine Ernest “brought down the house with her spectacular arias,” according to Peter G. Davis, critic of New York Magazine. Lorraine has performed this brilliant and arduous role with New York City Opera, the Metropolitan Opera Company, Pittsburgh Opera, Washington National Opera, the Denver Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Volksoper, Cedar Rapids Opera Theater, and Kansas City Lyric Opera. Other roles include a debut as Elvira in L’italiana in Algeri with Opera Company of Philadelphia and a performance as Cleopatra in Julius Caesar with Washington National Opera, where she also appeared in Fedora with Placido Domingo and Mirelli Freni. In her Carnegie Hall debut she sang the role of Mademoiselle Jouvenot in Opera Orchestra of New York’s concert version of Adriana Lecouvreur. She debuted with Los Angeles Opera as Princess Tatishchev alongside Domingo in Nicholas and Alexandra.
The NHSO asks that all attendees bring a donation of non-perishable food items to support The Junior League of Greater New Haven’s Hunger Awareness Committee and Connecticut Food Bank. Contributors will receive a voucher good for a discount toward the NHSO’s Valentine’s Pops Concert.
Single Tickets ($35 & 45) can be purchased through the NHSO Box Office at (203) 865-0831, ext. 10 or online at newhavensymphony.org. Student tickets always $10.
The East Haven concert is made possible in part by Saint Raphael Healthcare System, Tweed New Haven Regional Airport, and Town Fair Tire. The Hamden concert is made possible in part by support from Southern Connecticut State University. The Shelton concert is made possible through the generous support of R.D. Scinto and Newtown Savings Bank.
All programs subject to change without notice.
