Various speakers will be available to discuss each holiday and how and why it is celebrated. There will also be food representative of the various holidays. Music of the holidays will also be presented. Everyone is invited to attend this special event to usher in the holiday season. Director of Choirs Dirk Garner said the program will feature some of the most popular choral works of the past 500 years, including choruses from Handel's Messiah and Mendelssohn's Elijah, Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus, American folk songs, and African American spirituals.
Admission is free.
The free concert begins at 7 p.m. Begun by Hemberger last year, the Collage Concert honors visiting members of the High School Honors Wind Symphony and Wind Ensemble, which will be in residency at Southeastern December 1-2. Hemberger said the Southeastern Honor Band festival is among the most popular in the south. Honor bands members are chosen by nomination and include 120 of the state's best high school musicians. The 2000 honor bands will be conducted by Eugene Corporon of the University of North Texas, and Marcellus Brown from Boise State University.