For Immediate Release Chapman Presents Annual, Traditional Wassail Third night added, due to popularity and sell-out crowds in previous years. Three choirs sing, including new University Women s Chorus, accompanied by the Chamber Orchestra. Chapman s Wassail celebration features the Chapman University Choirs, including the new University Women s Chorus, accompanied by Chamber Orchestra, singing seasonal music, serenading servers at dinner and entertaining minstrels throughout the wassail drink and feast. Luminarias line the path from Beckman Hall to the Salmon Recital Hall.
People keep coming back year after year because they say it really kicks-off the holiday season.
Each year the feast is amazing and wholly in the spirit of a wassail Christmas banquet, says Hall. One year, the students served wild boar at dinner. Hall conducts the University Choirs and is conductor of the William Hall Master Chorale. He has been hailed as one of the most versatile and charismatic conductors on the international concert circuit, having appeared as a guest conductor with the Vienna Symphony and in the Far East. John Koshak, music director and conductor of both the University Chamber Orchestra and the Orange County Youth Symphony Orchestra, maintains national presence through his work as a member of the Board of Directors of the Conductor s Guild.