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One of the beloved traditions of the holidays is seeing a production of the Nutcracker ballet. In Berks County and the Lehigh Valley, we are fortunate to have several performed every year. This year, however, is a little different, with arts venues closed because of COVID-19 concerns, so ballet companies are getting creative and recording video of their productions so they can present them virtually.
This is the 52nd production of the classic ballet and it is the longest running Nutcracker in the Lehigh Valley. The production features more than 60 professional, pre-professional and student performers.
Guest artists this year are Oksana Maslova as Sugar Plum Fairy and Sterling Baca as her Cavalier. Both are principal dancers with Pennsylvania Ballet of Philadelphia.
It has been since March, the last time the Bach Choir of Bethlehem sang together, but in October, the choir s 65 members got together for the first time in more than six months at Little Pond Arts in Moore Township, Northampton County, where the group â socially distanced and outdoors - recorded music for its first-ever virtual Christmas concert.
The choir s concert, Opening Up Our Hearts: The Music and Inspiration of Christmas, will premiere online at 4 p.m. on Sunday.
The event is the result of 52 separate rehearsal sessions of small groups of eight led by choir director Greg Funfgeld.
The program includes Robert Parsons Ave Maria; traditional favorite Ding Dong Merrily on High; Go Tell It on the Mountain; as arranged by Paul Sjolund; and the choir s traditional concert closer, Franz Xaver Gruber s Silent Night.