Deck the Halls, FA-LA-LA, and Jingle-Jangle your way through the 2014
Holiday Pops! concert featuring America's oldest chamber orchestra: the
Chicago Chamber Orchestra and Chicago's most in-demand cabaret duo:
After Dark Award- winners
Beckie Menzie and Tom Michael.
This spectacular concert will feature the celebrated duo and the 30-piece Chamber Orchestra performing many holiday classics including "Do You Hear What I Hear?" and "The First Noel," to the lighter "Rudolph/Night in Tunisia" mix. Musical arrangements are provided by local composer and saxophonist Jim Gailoretto and will be conducted by Maestro Robert Turizziani. Celebrate the season with music and merriment that would even get Scrooge in the holiday spirit! This special concert will take place on Sunday, December 7, 2014 at 3 PM, at the Fourth Presbyterian Church, 26 E Chestnut St., Chicago, IL. There is limited seating with ticket prices ranging from $25-35. They can be purchased online at
www.ChicagoChamberOrch.Org/Events/HolidayPops or by calling
312.857.3094.
Menzie and Michael's imaginative musical twists on jazz favorites, standards, contemporary pop, Broadway show tunes and film gems have won them audience and critical acclaim across the country and around the globe. Their diverse touring schedule has recently taken them to some very prestigious stages, including New York's Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and Town Hall. They have also been included in New York's Cabaret Scenes Magazine's "Top Ten Cabaret Acts" for five consecutive years.
Their solo recording efforts and recent duo CD Better Two-gether, have been praised by Billboard Magazine, BackStage, Show Business Weekly and Playbill being hailed by critics as "magic," "sensational," and "...the year's best recording." The albums are available on iTunes and
amazon.com.
Named "among the best performers in Chicago" by Rick Kogan of WGN Radio, Menzie & Michael have appeared at The
Auditorium Theatre, Park West, The Pritzker Stage at Millenium Park, The
Empire Room and Maxim's. They have also been featured at numerous
Chicago Humanities
Festival ASCAP concerts.
For further information visit their web sites at
www.BeckieMenzie.com.
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