Sounds of the Season

Schedule

Thu, 19 Dec, 2024 at 07:30 pm

Location

Yukon Fine Arts Center | Yukon, OK

Come Get In The Holiday Spirit At Sounds Of The Season
It is time once again for one of Yukon's favorite traditions! This year's "Sounds of the Season" holiday concert is presented by Dr. Zachary Daniels and the Oklahoma Metropolitan Orchestra. We are excited about this year's show that Dr. Daniels has lovingly prepared just for Yukon that is sure to put you in the holiday mood!
Date: December 19th
Time: 7:30pm performance, Doors will open for seating at 7:00pm
Location: The Yukon Fine Arts Auditorium- 850 Yukon Ave.
Ages: All Ages, family friendly event
Cost: Reserved Seating $10 & General Admission $5
Dr. Daniels' Sneak Peak
This year the Oklahoma Metropolitan Orchestra will present a variety of Holiday Favorites, Christmas Classics, and Oklahoma Traditions at Yukon’s Sounds of the Season 2024. Selections include traditional Christmas Carols, Leroy Anderson’s Sleigh Ride, and other Christmas favorites. We will feature local singers Nicole Van Every and Courtney Crouse in the classics “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.” Oklahoma Christmas traditions run deep, and among these is Central Oklahoma Ballet’s annual production of The Nutcracker. To celebrate this, we will be featuring selections from this annual Yukon tradition as part of our festivities this year. The audience will, of course, be invited to partake in the holiday cheer as we sing medleys of traditional Christmas Carols. Joy to The World, Silent Night, and other favorites will be part of these audience sing-alongs. Of course, the Christmas season is well-known for its mark on Cinema. We will feature several selections of cinematic holiday music from favorites such as Polar Express, Home Alone, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas as part of our Christmas at the Movies suite. Every year deserves to be just a bit more special than the last. As such, new selections for this 2024’s Sounds of the Season include pieces by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, including Mas Russian’s Christmas and Christmas Eve Sarajevo. We will, of course, bring out our own Rock Band to do this right.
Ticket Information
All Tickets Will Go On Sale Starting November 25th!
General admission tickets will be $5 and will be available at the Yukon Community Center, 2200 S Holly; Jackie Cooper Gym, 1024 E. Main; the Dale Robertson Center, 1200 Lakeshore Drive; as well as all YNB locations. Cash or checks (made out to the City of Yukon) are accepted. General admission tickets will also be available to purchase online.
Reserved seating tickets will be $10 and only available at the Dale Robertson Center starting November 25 at 8:00am. Due to the popularity of the reserved tickets, they are limited to 6 per person. Get yours while they last!
The Sounds of the Season concert is hosted by the City of Yukon. It is made possible by generous sponsors who fund the event and make the very affordable ticket price possible. This year’s sponsors include Kirkpatrick Family Fund; YNB; Schwarz Paving; Williams, Box, Forshee and Bullard, P.C.; Wesco Insurance Agency; BOK Financial Securities; Integris Canadian Valley Hospital; BancFirst; Yanda & Son Funeral Home & Cremation Services; and Spanish Cove Retirement Village.
For more information about the City of Yukon’s Christmas events, call 405-354-8442, 405-350-8937
Dr. Zachary Daniels Conducting Biography
Dr. Zachary Daniels is an American composer and conductor driven by an artistic mission to bring passionate, informed performances to audiences and connect with concert goers on an educational, artistic, and cultural-relevancy level. Thorough score study, understanding the source material, and drafting a creative interpretation of the score lay the foundations of Daniels’ highly charismatic podium presence. As a multi-faceted career musician, he has appeared regularly at College Music Society conferences as a performer, composer, and adjudicator, participated in Music Theory Roundtables, had pieces presented at the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States annual conference, and had music included in the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival as well as various state Music Educators' Conferences.
Dr. Daniels currently serves as director of the Oklahoma Metropolitan Orchestra, Heartland Orchestra, and the Winds of the Prairie Band. He also currently serves as interim music director/conductor for the Oklahoma Community Orchestra, a civic orchestra based in Oklahoma City/Edmond. Previous conducting positions include Assistant Conductor for the Irv Wagner Big Band, Director of the University of Oklahoma New Music Improv! Ensemble, Assistant Director for the OU New Music Ensemble, a wide variety of chamber music conducting at the University of Oklahoma, directing the Drury University Chamber Orchestra and Wind Symphony, and going back as far as directing the Glendale High School orchestras throughout his high school years for a variety of works including several of his own world premieres and working with guest artists.
Zachary is passionate about bringing new music to audiences and bringing old music under a new spotlight to audiences with the hope of giving them something new to take away from a piece. He has given many world premieres by composers such as Dr. Edward Knight, Nikki Krumwiede, Celka Ojakangas, Kyle Dillingham, Dr. Kyle Vanderburg, and a great number of student composers some of which he has commissioned in the past. Dr. Daniels has also worked with artists such as Kyle Dillingham, Lucas Ross, Dr. Irvin Wagner, and Dr. David Hayes in addition to several Young Artists as soloists in a wide-ranging set of repertoire ranging from Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, to Grazyna Bacewitz's Piano Concerto, to Ed Knight's The Flickering Fiddle.
Daniels earned a BA in Music Composition and Double Bass performance from Drury University in 2014 before moving to Norman, Oklahoma for graduate school at the University of Oklahoma where he earned his MM and DMA ('16/'19) in Composition while also assisting in direction of the New Century Ensemble, directing the New Century improv Ensemble, and directing various chamber groups while also managing the composition studio under the supervision of Dr. Marvin Lamb and Dr. Konstantinos Karathanasis. His mentors in conducting include Andy Johnston, Dr. Christopher Koch, and Dr. Irvin Wagner. Dr. Daniels currently sits on the Music Theory faculty at Oklahoma City University’s Wanda Bass School of Music, and teaches composition privately.
Nicole Van Every, Soprano
Soprano Nicole Van Every, known for her versatility and distinctive warm timbre, has been hailed as "beautiful and magnificent," "excelling in every category," and providing a "stunning feast for the ears" by critics in the United States. She has delivered stand-out performances in repertoire ranging from Verdi's La Traviata to Haydn's Die Schöpfung to Orff's Carmina Burana. Her most recent professional engagement includes a performance this October with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic for the premiere of Loksi' Shaali' (Shell Shaker): A Chickasaw Opera composed by Jerod Tate. Other recent engagements include appearances with Painted Sky Opera (Oklahoma), Brava! Opera Theatre( Oregon), the Richardson Symphony Orchestra (Texas), the Fort Smith Symphony (Arkansas), the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, the Zielinski Singers (Poland and the United States), the ICMC (Greece), the Norman Philharmonic, and the Classical Music Festival (Austria). She will return to Austria this summer for performances of Haydn's Harmoniemesse and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. Equally at home in musical theater, she recently finished performing the lead role in UCO Broadway Tonight's Milk & Honey. Nicole is a winner of the Berkeley BCCO Soloist award, the American Prize in Oratorio Performance, the Classical Singer Magazine Summer Competition, and was a Regionals Finalist of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. In addition to music, she works in meteorology and is finishing her meteorology degree at Mississippi State University. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from OU.

Where is it happening?

Yukon Fine Arts Center, 896 Yukon Ave, Yukon, OK 73099-3880, United States,Yukon, Oklahoma

Event Location & Nearby Stays:

Host or Publisher The City of Yukon Oklahoma - Government

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