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Korean American Pianists, Chi Yong Yun is hailed for her poetic artistry and emotional depth.  Join Dr. Yun as she performs master works by the great composers including J.S. Bach, Beethoven, and Ravel.

Jasmine Murray is an independent American singer and beauty pageant titleholder from Starkville, Mississippi. Best known for her powerhouse vocals as a finalist in season eight of “American Idol,” Jasmine has worked hard to overcome and achieve so much at a young age.  Now at 25, Jasmine’s experience contributes to the wisdom and poise she carries.  She is on a mission to reach people with the message that God has given her, and she is just getting started.

VIP Seats are SOLD OUT!! Reserved and Student tickets are still available.

Credited among today’s most spectacular voices, David Phelps grew up in a musical family where his natural gift for song was evident from his young age.  Today, his seemingly endless vocal range, which extends more than three octaves, coupled with his gift for communicating a song, has brought the house down in the world’s most prestigious venues.  Before going solo, David served as a member of the popular Gaither Vocal Band for more than 15 years during which he won many Dove Awards, Grammy Awards and multiple platinum-selling recording projects. David is actively living his life-long passion of traveling around the world to share music, inspiration and good news.

VIP Tickets to David Phelps' concert is available by calling the HPAC box office.  VIP tickets includes:

• Doors open to VIP guest at 4:30p
• Sit in on the last of the afternoon rehearsal
• A preconcert dinner
• Early access to David Phelps merchandise
• Enjoy "Up Close" seats in the first 3 rows of the concert hall

Andrews University Symphony Orchestra’s “Christmas Concert” conducted by Chris Wild, with special guests the Andrews University Singers and Baritone vocal soloist Professor Stephen Zork.

This concert will feature extended musical selections from Peter Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker as well as a sampling of English Christmas Carols following intermission.

The second half of the concert will include two compositions by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) for which he took familiar English Christmas tunes and enriched them with his Romantic harmonic language and a variety of instrumental combinations. For Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols, the Symphony Orchestra will be joined by the University Singers and vocal soloist Professor Stephen Zork. In it, Vaughan Williams’ selected Christmas Carols include The Truth Sent From Above, Come All You Worthy Gentlemen, On Christmas Night, There Is A Fountain, and God Bless the Ruler of this House. The Symphony Orchestra will also perform a second “Fantasia” by Vaughan Williams, one based upon the English folk tune Greensleeves that features the orchestra’s string section, flutes, and guest harpist for the evening. We’ll bring the evening to a close with American composer Leroy Anderson’s stirring medley of Christmas Carols titled A Christmas Festival, which includes excerpts from Joy to the World, Deck the Halls, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Good King Wenceslas, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, The First Noel, Silent Night, Jingle Bells, and O Come, All Ye Faithful.

Anytime The Nutcracker is performed, it usually involves some sort of curatorial interpretation, whether it be a dance production or instrumental selections. For example, the Joffrey Ballet company has a new production of the work that reinterprets it as occurring during the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair rather than in the German village imagined by author E.T.A. Hoffmann. By the time of our concert, Walt Disney Studios will have contributed a completely new adaptation with its film titled The Nutcracker and the Four Realms. To enable orchestras to perform the ballet without dance, Tchaikovsky completed an instrumental Suite in 1892 that features eight orchestral excerpts from the ballet. For AUSO conductor Chris Wild, the Suite doesn’t suffice since it leaves out some of the ballet’s most memorable musical moments. Therefore, the Symphony Orchestra’s December 1 performance will feature approximately half of the ballet’s music, enabling the listener to perceive the full arc of the ballet’s story.

Program

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) – Selections from The Nutcracker

I – Overture

II – Scene 1

III – March of the Nutcracker

IV – Scene 6

V – Battle

VI – Scene 8

VII – Arabian Coffee

VIII – Chinese Tea

IX – Trepak

X – Dance of the Reed Flutes

XI – Waltz of the Flowers

XII – Pas de Deux

- Intermission -

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) – Fantasia on Christmas Carols
   Featuring Stephen Zork (Baritone) and the Andrews University Singers

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) – Fantasia on Greensleeves

Leroy Anderson (1908-1975) – A Christmas Festival

Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Chris Wild

The Andrews University Symphony Orchestra is the core ensemble of the orchestral program at Andrews University. In addition to their current series at the Howard Performing Arts Center, the Symphony Orchestra travels within the Great Lakes region as well as internationally. Since 2006, the orchestra has performed in Italy, Austria, Germany, France, the Philippines and Costa Rica.

2018 Welcome Christmas, presents the annual choral Christmas concert conducted by Stephen Zork, entitled When You Come - a garland of Christmas carols proclaiming and reliving the advent and gospel of Jesus Christ as portrayed through scripture and oral traditions throughout the ages. The collaborative concert will feature Andrews University Department of Music ensembles: Singers, Chorale, Symphony Orchestra, and tenor Charles Reid, associate professor of voice and Artist in Residence at Andrews University. The Andrews University Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Chris Wild.

Numerous seasonal favorites will be featured such as: Christmas Dinner and When You Come, We Will Shout Hallelujah! arranged by Stephen Zork for choir and orchestra. Fresh settings of traditional carols will include: Dan Forrest’s O Come, Let Us Adore Him, John Rutter’s Shepherd’s Pipe Carol, Courtney’s evocative arrangement Mary Did You Know? and Peter Anglea’s lyrical setting of Silent Night. The centerpiece of the program is Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols for which he took familiar modal English Christmas tunes and enriched them with his Romantic, harmonic language and a variety of instrumental combinations. In it, Vaughan Williams’ selected Christmas Carols include The Truth Sent from Above, Come All You Worthy Gentlemen, On Christmas Night, There Is a Fountain, and God Bless the Ruler of this House. For Fantasia on Christmas Carols, the Symphony Orchestra will be joined by the University Singers and vocal soloist Charles Reid. 

Welcome Christmas will begin at 7:00 p.m. on Friday evening December 7 in the Howard Performing Arts Center. This is a “full-house” event; doors will open promptly at 6:30 p.m. A free-will offering will be received. No admission charges.

This annual favorite brings in all the sounds of the season!  Come prepared to sing your treasured well-known Christmas carols from your seat with the Department of Music artists and other musicians on stage.

This annual favorite brings in all the sounds of the season!  Come prepared to sing your treasured well-known Christmas carols from your seat with the Department of Music artists and other musicians on stage.

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