Listen for the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra on the South Dakota Public Broadcasting (SDPB) radio airwaves this Christmas!
SDPB will play portions of Handel's Messiah from one of our past Holiday Pops concerts on Christmas Eve morning from 9am to 10am in a special called "The Best of South Dakota Holiday Music." Tune in to hear selections from this year's Holiday Pops concert on Christmas Eve night from 9pm to 10pm and Christmas morning from 11am to Noon.
The radio broadcast is also streamed live through the SDPB website so you can listen to the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra online from your computer anywhere this Christmas may find you.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Tune in to CBS on Christmas Eve to hear the SDSO in the national broadcast of "Christmas at the Cathedral"
A special one-hour broadcast of highlights from the popular local production, Christmas at The Cathedral will be broadcast nationally on the CBS television network on Christmas Eve, Thursday, Dec. 24. This special commercial-free broadcast will air nationally after the local news (10:35 PM - 11:35 PM, CT; 11:35 PM - 12:35 AM, ET/PT).
“CBS finds Christmas at The Cathedral to be a wonderful, broadly-based and welcoming broadcast. Everyone is invited into the Cathedral, reaches both Christians and non-Christians,” said Jack Blessington, Executive Producer for CBS in New York. “So many people from such various backgrounds and religions responded positively to the Christmas at The Cathedral broadcast in 2006. We are happy to have it back.”
This is the third time in the past four years that Christmas at The Cathedral has aired on national network television. The NBC television network provided Christmas at The Cathedral to its affiliates in 2007, in addition to a CBS network broadcast in 2006, in which it was carried by 203 affiliates and satellite stations from across the country. The positive response from viewers led to this year’s invitation to air a special broadcast of highlights from the past four years.
“We are honored to be able to celebrate the incredible story of Christmas with the rest of the country from right here in Sioux Falls, South Dakota,” said Mark Conzemius, producer and director of Christmas at The Cathedral. “It is a tribute to the talent of our local artists, to the extraordinary beauty of the Cathedral, the generosity of our local business community that make Christmas at The Cathedral possible. But most of all, I believe it is a because of the powerful message and community-wide celebration of Christ’s birth.”
Christmas at The Cathedral – Beacon of Hope, features the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra under the direction of conductor emeritus, Henry Charles Smith. World-renown tenor Scott Piper, who lives in Vermillion, performs O Holy Night and Thy Will Be Done, a special song written for St Joseph Cathedral by local composer, Dan Goeller. Soprano Emily Lodine, from Magnolia, MN, joins Piper in a beautiful rendition of Let There be Peace on Earth. Soprano Stacey Stofferahn, who studied at Augustana College, will perform Emmanuel, God With Us with video by local producer, Kirby Schultz, to enrich this moving concert broadcast.
Concert pianist, Paul Sanchez, an O+Gorman High School graduate, teams up with Piper in an inspirational rendition of the Ave Maria. Triplet trumpeters, The Stoneback Sisters, who once lived in Sioux Falls, begin and end the concert with grand fanfare. In a special candlelit section dedicated to children around the world, the St. Joseph Cathedral Men’s Schola under the direction of Ron Schallenkamp, sing Prayer of the Children, with a multi-cultural children's choir from the Sioux Falls Catholic Schools. Local actor and author, Tom Roberts, shares a special Christmas story, called The Red Wagon. As has become tradition, the concert ends with the Cathedral Choir and all performers in the Hallelujiah Chorus.
For 13 years, an interfaith audience has been welcomed to, Christmas at the Cathedral, a community-wide celebration filled with music, and song, focusing on the universal story of the birth of the Prince of Peace. A prayerful message and Christmas blessing will be lead by the Bishop of the Diocese of Sioux Falls, The Most Reverend Paul J. Swain.
St Joseph Cathedral is the setting for the concert and it is the seat of the diocese which covers 35,000 square miles, east of the Missouri River. St. Joseph Cathedral, Romanesque and Renaissance in style, was built from 1917-1919, designed by renowned architect, Emanuel Masqueray. It is considered one of the most prominent structures in the state. Referred to as a “Beacon of Hope,” the Cathedral is an imposing limestone building, with two great towers, sits on a natural ridge overlooking the city of Sioux Falls, and can be seen for miles.
Mark Conzemius is the Producer of the Christmas at The Cathedral concert, John P. Blessington is Executive Producer for CBS.
“CBS finds Christmas at The Cathedral to be a wonderful, broadly-based and welcoming broadcast. Everyone is invited into the Cathedral, reaches both Christians and non-Christians,” said Jack Blessington, Executive Producer for CBS in New York. “So many people from such various backgrounds and religions responded positively to the Christmas at The Cathedral broadcast in 2006. We are happy to have it back.”
This is the third time in the past four years that Christmas at The Cathedral has aired on national network television. The NBC television network provided Christmas at The Cathedral to its affiliates in 2007, in addition to a CBS network broadcast in 2006, in which it was carried by 203 affiliates and satellite stations from across the country. The positive response from viewers led to this year’s invitation to air a special broadcast of highlights from the past four years.
“We are honored to be able to celebrate the incredible story of Christmas with the rest of the country from right here in Sioux Falls, South Dakota,” said Mark Conzemius, producer and director of Christmas at The Cathedral. “It is a tribute to the talent of our local artists, to the extraordinary beauty of the Cathedral, the generosity of our local business community that make Christmas at The Cathedral possible. But most of all, I believe it is a because of the powerful message and community-wide celebration of Christ’s birth.”
Christmas at The Cathedral – Beacon of Hope, features the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra under the direction of conductor emeritus, Henry Charles Smith. World-renown tenor Scott Piper, who lives in Vermillion, performs O Holy Night and Thy Will Be Done, a special song written for St Joseph Cathedral by local composer, Dan Goeller. Soprano Emily Lodine, from Magnolia, MN, joins Piper in a beautiful rendition of Let There be Peace on Earth. Soprano Stacey Stofferahn, who studied at Augustana College, will perform Emmanuel, God With Us with video by local producer, Kirby Schultz, to enrich this moving concert broadcast.
Concert pianist, Paul Sanchez, an O+Gorman High School graduate, teams up with Piper in an inspirational rendition of the Ave Maria. Triplet trumpeters, The Stoneback Sisters, who once lived in Sioux Falls, begin and end the concert with grand fanfare. In a special candlelit section dedicated to children around the world, the St. Joseph Cathedral Men’s Schola under the direction of Ron Schallenkamp, sing Prayer of the Children, with a multi-cultural children's choir from the Sioux Falls Catholic Schools. Local actor and author, Tom Roberts, shares a special Christmas story, called The Red Wagon. As has become tradition, the concert ends with the Cathedral Choir and all performers in the Hallelujiah Chorus.
For 13 years, an interfaith audience has been welcomed to, Christmas at the Cathedral, a community-wide celebration filled with music, and song, focusing on the universal story of the birth of the Prince of Peace. A prayerful message and Christmas blessing will be lead by the Bishop of the Diocese of Sioux Falls, The Most Reverend Paul J. Swain.
St Joseph Cathedral is the setting for the concert and it is the seat of the diocese which covers 35,000 square miles, east of the Missouri River. St. Joseph Cathedral, Romanesque and Renaissance in style, was built from 1917-1919, designed by renowned architect, Emanuel Masqueray. It is considered one of the most prominent structures in the state. Referred to as a “Beacon of Hope,” the Cathedral is an imposing limestone building, with two great towers, sits on a natural ridge overlooking the city of Sioux Falls, and can be seen for miles.
Mark Conzemius is the Producer of the Christmas at The Cathedral concert, John P. Blessington is Executive Producer for CBS.
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