{"id":81891,"date":"2019-12-02T12:36:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T18:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=81891"},"modified":"2019-12-02T12:36:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T18:36:52","slug":"university-of-mississippi-holiday-concert-slated-for-december-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/university-of-mississippi-holiday-concert-slated-for-december-5\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Mississippi Holiday Concert Slated for December 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> <em>Crowd favorite returns to the Ford Center\u00a0<\/em> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>For anyone with a busy schedule wondering how to get in the holiday spirit, the <strong>University of Mississippi Department of Music <\/strong>offers its <strong>2019 Holiday Concert<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This popular Oxford holiday event is set for <strong>7:30 pm December 5<\/strong> at the <strong>Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year&#8217;s Holiday Concert will feature seasonal favorites performed by four Ole Miss music ensembles: the <strong>UM Chorus<\/strong>, <strong>University Symphony Orchestra<\/strong>, <strong>The Mississippians Jazz Ensemble<\/strong>, and <strong>UM Steel Orchestra<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;More than 200 student performers are on the program,&#8221; said <strong>Donald Trott<\/strong>, UM director of choral activities. &#8220;It&#8217;s a great way to start your holiday off with festive seasonal music.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Violinist <strong>Jiwon Lee<\/strong>, a graduate music student from Oxford, has played with the symphony at the Holiday Concert since she was in high school. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t feel like the holidays to me until the night of this concert,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The concert will be presented in two parts. The first features several works for chorus and orchestra, including a sacred medley of carols and &#8220;Festival First Nowell,&#8221; followed by a secular medley titled &#8220;Christmas Joy.&#8221; A special feature will be &#8220;Bugler&#8217;s Holiday,&#8221; featuring three trumpets and orchestra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Bugler&#8217;s Holiday&#8221; is great fun to play, said <strong>Jesse Gibens<\/strong>, trumpet player and a senior music major from Ripley. &#8220;It&#8217;s a popular piece by Leroy Anderson, who also wrote &#8216;Sleigh Ride.'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second part of the program will include selections by The Mississippians Jazz Ensemble and the UM Steel Orchestra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing friends perform in the different ensembles, and to hearing music that will get me in the holiday spirit,&#8221; said <strong>Sam Farris<\/strong>, tuba player and a senior music education major from Southaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets are $10 for the general public and $5 for children or anyone with an Ole Miss ID, available at the UM Box Office or at the door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>By\u00a0Lynn Adams Wilkins\/ University of Mississippi<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowd favorite returns to the Ford Center\u00a0 For anyone with a busy schedule wondering how to get in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":81893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11658],"tags":[15322,414,7275,15667,15672,15671,15674,15673,9912,15668,15670,655,15669],"class_list":["post-81891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays","tag-donald-trott","tag-ford-center","tag-gertrude-c-ford-center-for-the-performing-arts","tag-holiday-concert","tag-jesse-gibens","tag-jiwon-lee","tag-lynn-adams-wilkins","tag-sam-farris","tag-the-mississippians-jazz-ensemble","tag-um-chorus","tag-um-steel-orchestra","tag-university-of-mississippi","tag-university-symphony-prchestra"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019-12-02-UM-Holiday-Concert.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}