San Jose Wind Symphony Presents 'Holiday Lights'
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Join SJWS for an uplifting concert of seasonal works, from the sacred to the secular to the Festival of Lights. The family friendly concert features a variety of holiday-themed music by composers Leroy Anderson, Morton Gould, Julie Giroux and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Michael Daugherty's ethereal Winter Dreams and a special tenth-anniversary performance of John Mackey's The Frozen Cathedral.
Included also, especially for our younger audience members, is a special reading of The Night Before Christmas! and, of course, Leroy Anderson's Sleigh Ride!
This year we are beginning a new tradition, a collaboration: using our holiday concert to promote a local organization that is dedicated to serving our community's neediest members. For this concert, we are highlighting the good works of Family Supportive Housing (FSH) of San Jose. For over 30 years, this local nonprofit's mission has been to help families remain intact while addressing each family's needs. We strongly encourage our musicians and audience members - and their families and friends - to donate generously to this worthy organization. Representatives from FSH will be available at the concert to answer questions. To donate online, go to familysupportivehousing.org/donate.
Please join us to enjoy a great concert while helping those in need!
Dr. David Vickerman, our new Music and Artistic Director, was a 2015 winner of The American Prize in Conducting and 2023 winner of the Outstanding Music Educator Award for CMEA Bay Section, is an Associate Professor of Music and the Director of Bands at San Jose State University. Prior to his appointment at San Jose State University, he was the Director of Bands at The College of New Jersey (2012-2017) and the Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus (2010-2012).
Dr. Vickerman graduated from the Peabody Institute with a DMA in Wind Conducting in 2014 and a Master's Degree in Wind Conducting from the University of Oregon in 2010.
$7-$22.
Presented by San Jose Wind Symphony.