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The Millsaps
community will host two Christmas events in early December to ring
in the holidays. An annual candlelight Advent Service of Lessons
and Carols and a child-friendly puppet performance of The Nutcracker
Suite are among the events planned to celebrate the season.
The Advent Service
will be held at noon on Tuesday, Dec. 3, in the Gertrude C. Ford
Academic Complex recital hall. The special service, sponsored by
the Millsaps Singers and the Millsaps Campus Ministry Team, includes
a candlelight concert of traditional Christmas hymns and sacred
music. The program follows the Service of Lessons and Carols from
Kings' College Chapel in Cambridge, England.
"This service
is very popular among the Millsaps and Jackson communities,"
said Dr. Timothy Coker, chair of the Millsaps performing arts department
and conductor of the Millsaps Singers. "I believe that it is
the combination of the dignity and order of the service with the
attractiveness and timelessness of the carols that makes the service
so appealing to everyone."
The Advent Service
is free, and the public is warmly invited to attend. For more information
about the Advent Service, call 974-1422 or 974-1205.
The Mississippi
Puppet Arts Theatre will present several performances of Tchaikovsky's
The Nutcracker Suite on Dec. 4-6, 11 and 13 at 9:30 and 11:00
a.m. each day.
The Nutcracker
Suite was designed by Peter and Jarmila Zapletal. The pair have
won countless awards for their puppetry work including regional
and national Emmy awards. More than seventy puppets and animated
objects will be showcased in the production, including Clara, the
magical Nutcracker, marching penguins, dancing bears, snowmen and
the mice and their king.
"Our show
is an exciting way to introduce children to the Nutcracker story,
classical music and puppetry," said Zapletal, designer of the
show and master puppeteer. "The puppets interact on stage with
a real-life narrator, Dr. Drosselmeyer, to create the feel of a
big screen animated cartoon."
Admission to
the show is $6 per person, with group rates available. All performances
will take place in the Millsaps Christian Center Auditorium. For
ticket reservations and more information, call (601) 977-9840 or
1-800-590-3924.
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