Yuletide Pops   Saturday, December 20 - 8:00pm   Missouri Theater – 717 Edmond Street, Saint Joseph, MO   Guest Conductor, Tony Brandolino – Liberty Symphony Orchestra         Anderson:  Christmas Festival   Tchaikovsky:  Selections from the Nutcracker ballet   Hannah Reddekopp, soloist   Hankewich:  Ol' Saint Nick   arr. Custer:  Winter Wonderland   Morricone:  Gabriel's Oboe   Meribeth Risebig, oboe   Henderson:  A Canadian Brass Christmas   Shaw/Bennett:  The Many Moods of Christmas - Suites 1 and 3   Featuring the St. Joseph Community Chorus Leroy Anderson P. I. Tchaikovsky Tim Hankewich Ennio Morricone Luther Henderson Robert Shaw About December's soloists: Hannah Reddekopp   Ballerina Hannah Reddekopp has performed at the Kirov Ballet Intensive, Boston Ballet Dance Lab and the Boston Ballet Summer Dance program.  Ms. Reddekopp trained with the Classical Ballet School for ten years, was a member of Ballet North for eight years and earned a major tuition scholarship to the University of Utah's Ballet Department in 2006.  She has performed in Cinderella as the Coachman, the Wallflower in Cakewalk, the Spirit of the Sea in Watermark, the Gypsy solo in Paquita, Princess Vivacious in Sleeping Beauty, Grand Pas and Sugar Plum in Nutcracker and Odette/Odile in Swan Lake.  She is a junior at William Jewell College where she is majoring in organizational communication and is employed as an instructor for the Classical Ballet School.   Meribeth Risebig    Meribeth Risebig is currently Principal Oboist of the Liberty Symphony, St. Joseph Symphony, the Northland Symphony and also plays with the Kansas City Symphony, Starlight Theater of Kansas City and the Kansas City Ballet Orchestra.  In the past she performed with the American Wind Symphony, Wichita Symphony, Dallas Wind Symphony, Sunflower Music Festival Orchestra, Kansas City Camerata, Kansas City Chamber Orchestra and the East Texas Symphony.    Ms. Risebig studied oboe with Ronn Boyd and the late Douglas Steinke while at Washburn University, Linda Strommen while at Wichita State University, Stephen Lickman (formerly Dallas Symphony), and later with Ray Still (retired Principal Oboe Chicago Symphony).    When not making reeds and giving oboe lessons, she holds down a full-time administrative assistant job at a church in Overland Park, sings in the choir at her church, and plays the lever harp and recorders whenever she gets a chance.

Tony Brandolino Hannah Reddekopp Meribeth Risebig

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