Christmas with MVO

1555 40th Avenue Northeast,Columbia Heights MN 55421

05 December, 2021

Description

A Christmas orchestral concert that is heart-warming, free to the public. We invite you to mask up and join us for our annual holiday concert and return to First Lutheran Church in Columbia Heights! We are excited to present to you a concert full of character and theatrical elements, from holiday classics to another world premiere. The concert will open with Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld overture, conducted by guest conductor Andrew Kim. (If you’re a can-can dancer, the aisles are yours!) Following that is Ethel Smyth’s cinematic depiction of the rough sea in “On the Cliffs of Cornwall” from her epic opera The Wreckers. Then we will perform the world premiere of MVO’s own Nicco A. Ibarra Acevedo’s charming Serenata for Strings and then Tchaikovsky’s “Waltz of the Snowflakes”—with none other than the Minnesota Boychoir! The second half of the concert is full of holiday classics: Johann Strauss Jr.’s On the Beautiful Blue Danube and the wild and fun “Csárdás” from Ritter Pásmán. Of course you will hear our annual rendition of LeRoy Anderson’s Sleigh Ride as well. The concert concludes with the festive “Christmas Overture” from The Forest of Wild Thyme, the second piece in our season-long exploration of the music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Bring a few extra $5’s so you can take home some of our delectable fudge! It all starts at 2:30 with a pre-concert performance by the MVO brass. The Minnesota Boychoir will also sing you Christmas carols during the intermission! The concert is free, and we can’t wait to see you there! Sunday, December 5, 2021, at 3:00pm, pre-concert performance at 2:30pm First Lutheran Church, 1555 40th Ave NE, Columbia Heights, MN 55421 MVO Covid Safety Policy: 1) All audience members must wear masks at all times when they are inside the concert venue. 2) All audience members age 12 and older must show either a vaccination card (the original or a photo on your phone) or a negative test result for Covid from within 72 hours before the concert. 3) Children under the age of 12 are welcome! They must be masked and accompanied by an adult at all times. MVO is a civic orchestra that has achieved a reputation among its partners and supportive, growing audiences for serious music making, and also for sincere collegiality within the orchestra and its all-volunteer yet professional board of directors. We are proud to be the only community orchestra in the area that charges no dues and whose concerts are all free.  (This is abbreviated from website version. Should some or all of the rest be included?) Our mission is to infuse the lives of dedicated musicians, and their neighbors in the Twin Cities, with the creative insights, emotional energy and camaraderie that come from experiencing classical music together.