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The Butler County Symphony Orchestra presents its holiday concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Butler Intermediate High School Auditorium.
The theme for the season is “A Night of ...,” and this program will feature “A Night of Joy,” including traditional holiday pieces and a singalong.
Matthew Kraemer will be the guest conductor. The Slippery Rock University Concert Choir also will perform.
Reserved seats are available at the symphony office, 259 S, Main St.
Tickets are $22 in advance and $25 at the door. Student tickets are $5. For more information, call 724-283-1402 or visit www.butlersymphony.org.
GROVE CITY — The Grove City College department of music and fine arts presents the eighth annual winter jazz concert at 8 p.m. Dec. 9 in Ketler Auditorium of the Pew Fine Arts Center. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. The concert is free.Selections will include a number of traditional Christmas tunes and a variety of big band, jazz and seasonal favorites, including “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” “Jingle Bells,” “Joy to the World,” “Winter Wonderland” and “Sleigh Ride.”
The Bach Society concert, “This Christmastide,” begins at 8 p.m. Friday at Center Presbyterian Church, 211 Center St.The concert will be presented again at 8 p.m. Saturday at Tower Presbyterian Church, 248 S. Broad St., Grove City.Admission is free.
SLIPPERY ROCK — A free Christmas dinner theater will be presented Dec. 14 by Grace Anglican Church at Highland Presbyterian Church, 310 Franklin St.The dinner will be served promptly at 5:45 p.m. followed by the show. The dinner will be an Italian feast of salad greens, pasta with homemade sauce and meatballs, bread and a dessert.The show will be Charles William's Christmas play, “The House by the Stable.”Seating is limited so call 724-421-9362 or send e-mail by Dec. 10 to ChristmasDinnerTheater@gmail.com. Child care is provided for children age 6 or younger.
FOXBURG — Allegheny RiverStone Center for the Arts will host the Pittsburgh Symphony Brass at 2 p.m. Dec. 11 in the Episcopal Memorial Church of Our Father, 110-136 Church Road.Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for students and can be reserved by calling 412-867-1816.Other ARCA holiday events include the Madrigal Dinner held at Lincoln Hall on Palmer Street at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Tickets are $35 and can be reserved by calling 724-867-2261 or 412-867-1816.A Christmas singalong with the Wurlitzer theater organ is set for 2 p.m. Sunday at Lincoln Hall. Donation is $5.A benefit for 2-year-old Maddie Stewart, who suffers from Pearson's Syndrome, will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday.For information visit www.alleghenyriverstone.org.
PITTSBURGH — Six 20-foot fresh pine trees, decorated with ornaments handmade by members and friends of the Women’s Committee of Carnegie Museum of Art, will be on view Dec. 8 to Jan. 12 in the Hall of Architecture at the art museum, 4400 Forbes Ave.This holiday tradition is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.This year’s trees, with decorations inspired by the theme “Solid Gold: Classics that Endure,” will highlight art, culture and science.A holiday singalong will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. Dec. 10.The Italian nativity scene called Neapolitan Presepio will be displayed Dec. 9 to Jan. 8.For more information, call 412-622-3131 or visit www.cmoa.org.
