APPLETON, WIS. -- Acclaimed harpist Alison Attar will accompany the Bel Canto choir's performance of Benjamin Britten's masterpiece "A Ceremony of Carols" in the Lawrence Academy of Music Girl Choir's "Yuletide Carols" concert. Traditional and contemporary Christmas music will be staged in two performances Sunday, Dec. 9 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel, 510 E. College Ave.
Tickets, at $10 for adults and $7 for senior citizens/students, are available at the Lawrence Box Office or by phone at 920-832-6749. Any remaining tickets will be available at the box office beginning one hour before each performance.
Attar's interest in historical harps has led her to concert halls around the world. She has played with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Boston's Handel & Haydn Society, Scotland's Edinburgh Festival as well as a concert tour of Taiwan.
"The Girl Choir program is certainly honored to share the Lawrence stage with a musician of harpist Alison Attar's stature," said Karen Bruno, artistic director of the Girl Choir program.
The "Yuletide Carols" concert will include sacred music, a Spanish carol, an English wassail song, a contemporary composition modeled on 15th-century composition techniques, several traditional carols as well as an audience sing-along.
Amber Evey, a 2005 Lawrence graduate, makes her debut as the new conductor of the Intermezzo Choir (grades 5-7). She had previously worked with the program as a manager and student intern.
Other conductors for the concert include Bruno, Bel Canto (grades 9-12) and Cantabile (grades 7-9) choirs, Karrie Been, Primo Choir (grades 3-4), and Cheryl Meyer, Allegretto Choir (grades 4-5).
The Lawrence Academy of Music Girl Choir consists of 316 girls representing more than 50 public, private and home schools throughout northeast Wisconsin.
