LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PRESENTS ‘AN OLD WORLD HOLIDAY’

The La Crosse Symphony Orchestra is getting ready for their holiday concerts, happening December 17th and 18th at Viterbo University’s Fine Arts Center. Dominique Luecke, the Executive Director from the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra, stopped in to tell us about the show:

The La Crosse Symphony Orchestra’s website describes the show: “Christmas and Hanukkah traditions come together in a joyous musical Holiday celebration, paying tribute to our Coulee region and full of the flavor of Old Vienna.  Katherine Weber — Holmen native, Viterbo graduate, and now making an operatic career in Europe — joins the LSO for some of the very greatest Holiday gems for soprano and orchestra.  And in another LSO tradition, the young musicians of the La Crosse Area Youth Symphony Orchestra join forces with our artists onstage to create another memorable evening, performing timeless scenes from the most beloved of Christmastime operas.”

Grab tickets and info HERE!

Here’s the line-up for both performances!

KATHERINE WEBER, soprano

With members of the La Crosse Area Youth Symphony Orchestra, Randy Mastin, Director

Leroy Anderson: A Christmas Festival

Matt Riley: We Three Kings (Aaron Schwartz, violin)

Lucas Richman: Hanukkah Festival Overture

Mozart: “Alleluja” from Exultate, jubilate, K.165

Adolphe Adam: O Holy Night

Max Reger: Mary’s Cradle Song

Bach/Gounod: Ave Maria

Richard Rodgers: “My Favorite Things” from The Sound of Music

Franz Lehar: “Vilja Song” from The Merry Widow

With the La Crosse Area Youth Symphony Orchestra

Humperdinck: Selections from Hansel and Gretel Prelude, Witches’ Ride, Sandman’s Song, Evening Prayer, Pantomime

John Finnegan: A Christmas Sing-Along including “Rock of Ages”

Feature image photographer: Theresa Smerud