An American Christmas, with Matt Curtis & the Coulee Classic and members of the La Crosse Area Youth Symphony

December 16 & 17, 2022:

An American Christmas, with Matt Curtis & the Coulee Classic and members of the La Crosse Area Youth Symphony

(Randy Mastin, Director)

 

Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride

Victor Herbert: March of the Toys, from Babes in Toyland

Samuel Barber: Silent Night

Lucas Richman: Hanukkah Festival Overture

 

Holiday Favorites for Barbershop Quartet, with Coulee Classic

 

Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, after Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite

 

Tchaikovsky: Suite from Swan Lake

 

Redner, arr. Robertson: O Little Town of Bethlehem

John Williams: “Somewhere in My Memory” from Home Alone

John Finnegan: A Holiday Singalong

 

 

Matt Curtis — La Crosse native, Viterbo grad, and former member of the legendary ensemble Chanticleer, returns home to grow a business and raise a family — and, in his spare time, revive that great American tradition of the Barbershop Quartet! “Coulee Classic” will team up with the LSO for a bouquet of Holiday favorites that’ll warm your heart. And, in a newer LSO tradition, members of our wonderful La Crosse Youth Symphony join the LSO for Tchaikovsky’s immortal ballet, Swan Lake……and beforehand, a uniquely American masterpiece: Duke Ellington’s incredible Jazz interpretation of that most famous of all Christmas classics, the Nutcracker Suite — in which the talents of several of the LSO’s principal musicians will come to the fore. As always, we close our evening together with John Finnegan’s holiday Singalong, incorporating the most beloved Christmas and Hanukkah tunes.

 

SPONSORED BY: Hale Skemp Hanson Skemp & Sleik as well as I.D.ology