ECU School of Music schedules holiday choirs, TubaChristmas concerts
Musicians perform in the annual TubaChristmas at ECU. This year, the city of Greenville will sponsor the free event on Dec. 8. (ECU Photos)
The East Carolina University School of Music has scheduled two free public performances of holiday music in the coming weeks, including the third annual Tuba Christmas.
On Tuesday, Dec. 3, the ECU Combined Choirs will perform a Sounds of the Seasons concert at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 401 E. Fourth St., Greenville. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. For more information call 252-328-6851.
On Dec. 8, ECU low brass has scheduled TubaChristmas from noon until 1 p.m. at the Hammock Garden located in the 400 block of Evans Street, Uptown Greenville. The city of Greenville is a sponsor of the event.
ECU professors, students and community musicians will present the outdoor performance featuring traditional holiday songs arranged for a large ensemble of tubas, baritones, euphoniums and sousaphones.
Tuba and euphonium musicians of all ages gather to play and lead audiences in holiday singalongs.
Any community musician who plays baritone, euphonium, tuba or sousaphone is invited to perform in TubaChristmas with a $10 donation to benefit the Harvey Phillips Foundation. Musician registration begins at A.J. Fletcher Music Center, 10th Street, ECU campus, from 9:30-10 a.m., with a rehearsal in Fletcher from 10-11 a.m. and the performance at noon at the Hammock Garden. For more information or to register to perform, call 252-328-1693 or email williamsjarr17@ecu.edu.
Merry TubaChristmas 2019 concerts will be presented in more than 275 cities throughout the United States and in several foreign countries. Tuba and euphonium musicians of all ages gather to play and lead audiences in holiday singalongs.
If raining, heavy snow or temperature below 34 degrees, the TubaChristmas performance will be indoors in the A.J. Fletcher Music Building.
Both concerts are free, open to the public, and no tickets are required, but donations are accepted for the Sounds of the Seasons concert.
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