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Calling all UDT alumni! Come join us for a weekend of master-classes, performances, and celebration December 3, 4, and 5, 2009. Master-classes will be held Friday at 2:30 PM and Saturday at 10:00 AM in the Brophy Dance Studio. Performances will be held December 3, 4, 5 at 7:30 PM at Hainline Theater in Browne Hall. Complimentary tickets will be given to all UDT alumni. A reception will follow the Saturday performance in the Lamoine Room in the Student Union.

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The 16th Annual Holiday Festival of Choirs

Under the artistic direction of Dr. James Stegall, this spectacular multi-ensemble choral event will be presented at 7:30 PM on Friday, December 4 and Saturday, December 5 at St. Paul Catholic Church located at 309 W. Jackson in Macomb, IL. The concert features the nationally recognized Western Illinois University Singers and Madrigal Singers, James Stegall, conductor; along with the WIU Concert Choir, Doug Thompson conductor. Also on the program will be the Macomb High School Madrigal Singers, Melanie Butcher, conductor and a special appearance by the 60-voice Macomb Holiday Festival Children's Honor Choir comprising treble singers in grades 4 through 8. Gayle Cooper will again be the organist for this year's performances.

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WIU Opera Theatre's Amahl and the Night Visitors

Friday, December 11 and Saturday, December 12, 7:30 PM, Hainline Theatre.

Public $15; Senior Citizens/WIU Students $12. Hainline Box Office, 309-298-2900, NOON to 5:00 PM, Monday thru Friday.

Amahl and the Night Visitors, a one act holiday opera for the whole family, answers the question “what could have transpired if the Three Kings had stopped to rest at a poor boy's home on their journey to Bethlehem?”

The title role of Amahl, sung by two of Macomb's own elementary school children, Evan Baker (St. Pauls Elementary) and Sophie Walker (Edison Elementary), is a crippled boy with an overactive imagination. He is always meeting unusual creatures and seeing fantastic sights, so when he tells his mother, sung by Chelsea Maroney and Nicole Lanier, about the great star in the sky and the three kings knocking on their door, she only scolds him for his tall tales. The three kings enter into Amahl's world and change it forever. Composer, Gian Carlo Menotti, fills his score with graceful and emotional music. He also throws in a dash of humor with his depiction of the three kings: the childlike Kaspar, sung by Samuel Essling; the compassionate Melchior, sung by Daniel Reem; and Daniel Brakefield and Denver Murphy are double cast as the more practical Bathazar. Chrystopher Wilson performs the role of the Kings' Page.

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