North Valley Symphony Orchestra to perform holiday concert 

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Youth Orchestra members Andreja Donaldson and Noel Washington take time with Santa during intermission at NVSO’s 2015 holiday concert. PHOTO CREDIT: Tom Argiro

Invite your family, friends and neighbors for a delightful performance of your favorite classical holiday music, Saturday, December 3 at 7 p.m.

North Valley Symphony Orchestra will make this a holiday to remember, performing little-known Santa Claus: Christmas Symphony by William Henry Fry, The Holly and the Ivy by Malcolm Arnold, Men of Goodwill by Benjamin Britten, and the ever-popular Nutcracker Suite #1 by Tchaikovsky. There will be an appearance by Santa Claus with free photo opportunities before the concert and during intermission.

The talented NVSO Youth Orchestra will open the concert with Glazounov’s Russian Christmas Festival: Carolers. This concert is supported in part by the Arizona Commission on the Arts which receives support from the State of Arizona and the National Endowment for the Arts.

North Valley Symphony Orchestra proudly provides affordable concert experiences to the Phoenix north valley community. NVSO’s “A Santa Claus Symphony” concert is the perfect way to inspire children and young adults in the appreciation of orchestral music, while starting a family tradition of regularly supporting the arts in your community.  Tickets are only $5, and can be purchased on-line at www.northvalleysymphony.org.  The concert begins at 7 p.m. at North Canyon High School Performing Arts Center, 1700 E. Union Hills Drive.

NVSO Youth Orchestra and NVSO Symphonettes (NVSO’s training orchestra) will also perform in a free holiday concert on Saturday, December 10. That concert will begin at 3:30 p.m. at Cactus Shadows High School, 5802 E. Dove Valley Rd., Cave Creek.

If interested in joining NVSO, or in helping to manage or sponsor this vibrant organization in any way, please e-mail [email protected] or call 623-980-4628. Being a concert sponsor or advertising in NVSO’s full color concert program booklet is an excellent way for you to promote your business while at the same time supporting NVSO. Your program ad will be seen by over 500 concert goers per concert. What an excellent way to expose your business, your brand, your product or your service to community members of the Phoenix North Valley, while also demonstrating your valuable support of arts in our community.