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| | Holidays in Hudson
Anna Song, Director
Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024 • 7:30 pm
Friday, Dec. 6, 2024 • 7:30 pm
Hudson Hall,
Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center
A long-running tradition, seen by many as the official beginning of the holiday season in Salem. Join us in the beautifully-decorated Hudson Hall, an opportunity to slow down and enjoy a moment of peace and beauty amidst the fast pace of the holiday season.
This year's program will feature timeless choral works and songs for the season performed by Willamette's Voce and Chamber Choirs, along with traditional carols sung together with the audience. | Buy tickets |
| | A Christmas Carol
A 1940’s Radio Show
Adapted from the Dickens short story by Thomas Nabhan
Directed by Susan Coromel
Dec. 6 - 7 and 11 - 13, 2024 • 7 pm
Dec. 8 & 14 2024 • 2 pm matinee
In the Putnam Studio at the M. Lee Pelton Theatre, Willamette campus
On a snowy Christmas eve in 1941, the weather has made traveling to the radio station difficult for the actors of Salem's own KSL. They are to perform A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, a well-loved radio tradition in the sleepy town of Salem, Oregon. Trouble ensues when the new Foley sound effects gal arrives late, setting off a series of comic mishaps.
Join Theatre 33 for the return of A Christmas Carol, A 1940's Radio Show, where hope and redemption are not only found in the Dickens story but in the radio actors themselves. Four actors bring dozens of Dickens' characters to life in this fresh look at a timeless tale. | Buy tickets |
| | Far Away
This hour-long futuristic nightmare envisions a world where the promise of violence broods and nothing is to be trusted. Written by the celebrated author of Top Girls and Cloud Nine, this innovative work consists of three brief scenes. In the first, a young girl spending her first night in her new guardian's house witnesses a bloody slaughter. Next, the girl, now grown, is spending her first day working in a hat factory. There, she and a young man concoct funny and elaborate hats that are to be worn for a horrific purpose. In the final scene, the boy and girl, now wed, are seeking refuge from a global conflict – even the animals are on one side or another. | Buy tickets |
| | The Goudy Distinguished Artists Series presents
Cantores in Ecclesia
Wednesday, Feb 19, 2025 • 7:30 pm
Hudson Concert Hall
For 40 years, CIE Vocal Ensembel has been dedicated to the restoration of Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony to the church’s liturgy directed by Blake Applegate.
Cantores in Ecclesia is dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony in liturgical context within the Latin Mass of the Catholic Church.
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| | Fetes des Femmes
Performances by Willamette’s Award-Winning Music Faculty and Special Guests
Saturday, March 8, 7:30 p.m.
Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center ● Hudson Hall
In its fourth annual tribute to International Women’s Day, Willamette Music brings together an extraordinary array of performances from around the globe and through the decades, all in celebration of countless contributions women have made to the world of music. Join us in celebrating the timeless voices and talents that have paved the way for centuries of female musicians and artists.
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| | Bloom Bloom Pow
Returning to her conservative Ohio town, non-binary Mag finds everything is dull and weird and not queer at all. They are trying to keep it together despite desperate phone calls from their mom, chatty co-workers, and visions of melting ice caps and dead horses at the bottom of the east river. Mag's life gets more interesting (and sexy) when they meet The Creature and learn about the algae taking over the town's water supply. Will Mag save the city, or is it the algae's time to shine? Bloom Bloom Pow is inspired by 1950s monster movies and the real-life 2014 crisis in Toledo, Ohio, when the tap water became deadly for humans because of toxic algal blooms. The play de-centers humans, elevates microorganisms and celebrates queer joy in the face of climate devastation. | Buy tickets |