For more information:
Rob Price, Director of Marketing (Media calls)
602.243.8030
Performing Arts Hotline: 602.243.8353
Tickets are $10 at
Showup.com
For the 20th year, South Mountain Community College will present the much-loved performance of highlights from Handel’s Messiah.
The concert, which will celebrate the college’s two decades of performing Messiah, will be Saturday, Dec. 1, at 6:30 pm in Performance Hall of the college, 7050 S. 24th St.
Tickets are $10 and available at Showup.com. All seating is general (not assigned) for the 350-seat theater.
"It is thrilling to perform Handel’s Messiah each year,” notes Conductor Dr. Jerome K. Garrison Sr., who is also chair of the SMCC Music Department. “This year is special, marking twenty years of performing this outstanding work. This is a wonderful tradition that attracts audiences from throughout Arizona.”
The 2007 performance will mark the fourth year that excerpts from Handel’s Messiah will be presented in beautiful Performance Hall -- which is noted for its outstanding acoustics.
Up to 75 vocalists and 25 instrumentalists volunteer each year for the Messiah performance, making up the Community Concert Choir and Orchestra of SMCC. Students, workers, retirees, teenagers, great-grandmothers, counselors and civil servants all join to together for the opportunity to perform one of the most moving musical pieces of all time.
The 2007/2008 performance season at South Mountain Community College is sponsored in part by The Arizona Lottery.
For more information about performances, please call the SMCC Performing Arts Hotline: 602.243.8353.