"A musical journey stretching from Technicolor Hollywood to the modern stage, the concert will feature vocalist Joan Ellison. The singer has made it her life's work to restore and perform Judy Garland's original symphonic scores - the very arrangements audiences first heard on television, in films, and at Garland's legendary 1961 Carnegie Hall concert. Singing Garland's original orchestrations with a full symphony is both exhilarating and surreal for Ellison. "It's just the biggest thrill imaginable," she said,of performing with a symphony orchestra. "It feels like I'm standing in the recording studio at Capitol Records in 1955!""
"Under the baton of Music Director Martin Majkut, the Rogue Valley Symphony will perform an array of lush orchestrations - a blend of beloved holiday standards and Garland favorites that span from the 1930s to the 1960s. The orchestra began offering holiday concerts on the OSF campus three years ago. "We are having so much fun coming up with new projects that are unlike the ones we've done before and that delight our audiences," Majkut said. "Nobody saw us bringing in a gospel choir last year.""
"Ellison's Judy Garland show was on the RVS radar for a while. "The music is of high quality," Majkut said. "The tunes are as nostalgic as they are immortal, and the arrangements are exactly as they were on the Judy Garland show. It is a perfect time capsule moment." The evening's program will open with Leroy Anderson's A Christmas Festival and weave through selections such as It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year, The Christmas Waltz, and Carol of the Bells."
The Rogue Valley Symphony will present A Judy Garland Christmas Dec. 19-21 at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Angus Bowmer Theatre in Ashland. Vocalist Joan Ellison will perform restored Judy Garland symphonic scores that replicate the original arrangements heard on television, in films, and at Garland's 1961 Carnegie Hall concert. Music Director Martin Majkut will conduct lush orchestrations blending holiday standards and Garland favorites spanning the 1930s through the 1960s. The program opens with Leroy Anderson's A Christmas Festival and includes selections such as It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year, The Christmas Waltz, Carol of the Bells, The Trolley Song, and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
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