The GREAT FALLS SYMPHONY Presents
WINTERSCAPES Featuring the Symphonic Choir and
A new work by Paul Zarzyski & Grant Harville
Sunday, DECEMBER 8 at 3:00 PM
MANSFIELD THEATER

This year’s Holiday Concert celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Great Falls Symphonic Choir with the debut composition by cowboy poet Paul Zarzyski (2005 recipient of the Montana Governor’s Arts Award for Literature), featuring music composed by our very own music director and conductor, Grant Harville.

Zarzyski has performed at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering for the past 30 years, as well as on the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. He’s been featured on A Prairie Home Companion and CBS’s Sunday Morning, and is the author of 12 books and chapbooks.

David Saslav, a Symphonic Choir member, won the unique opportunity as special guest conductor for Sleigh Ride, as well as a carol sing-along, heralding the Yuletide Season. English composer Philip Lane’s Three Wassail Dances is themed around the Christmas seasons of Somerset, Yorkshire, and Gloucestershire. The surviving fragments of Felix Mendelssohn’s unfinished oratorio, Christus, is based on the story of the Magi and featuring There Shall a Star Come out of Jacob. Slalom, with “orchestral whirring and whooshing,” by American composer Carter Penn, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

For seasons to come, you’ll recall this magical wintery experience as a mosaic of new and old, discovery and remembrance – truly, Winterscapes.

Single admission tickets for Sunday’s concert are available at the Civic Center Mansfield Box Office at 2 Park Drive South, Great Falls, by phone at 406.455.8514 (open Monday-Friday 11:00 am to 4:30 pm), or online 24-hours at https://ticketing.greatfallsmt.net/eventperformances.asp?evt=1277. Single tickets are $50-$55 for adults, $15 for students 20 and under. On the day of the concert, the box office in the theater lobby will open at 6:00 pm for ticket sales.

For more information, contact the Great Falls Symphony at 406.453.4102 or at https://www.gfsymphony.org/winterscapes.
This concert is made possible, in part, by the generous concert sponsorship provided by RBC Wealth Management.

The Great Falls Symphony season is sponsored by D | A | Davidson Companies. Thank you for your support!

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