DECEMBER 19
GREENSBORO COLISEUM
Holiday Concerts are Free to the Public
Sealy/Fox8 Holiday Concert
Friday, December 19, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
Doors Open at 6 p.m. for Seating
GREENSBORO COLISEUM ARENA
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Admission and Parking are FREE with a donation of non-perishable food items for the Salvation Army.
Bruce Kiesling, conductor
Appearances by:
Anthony Dean Griffey
Summit Figure Skating Club of Greensboro
Bill Flynn WMAG 99.5 FM
Choral Society of Greensboro
Neill McNeill and Julie Luck
Lisa Dames
Sir Robert Bell of Clan MacMillan, Bagpiper
Program Notes
Anthony Dean Griffey
American tenor Anthony Dean Griffey has captured critical and popular acclaim on opera, concert and recital stages worldwide. The combination of his beautiful and powerful lyric tenor voice, along with his gift for exceptional communication and excellent musicianship have earned him the highest praise. He has been hailed for possessing both “presence and a tenor that is pure, sweet and clarion” (The Los Angeles Times), and for having a voice that is “both full-bodied and sweet-toned” (The New York Times). In the 2008-2009 season Mr. Griffey will perform leading roles with many of America’s premiere opera houses, to include appearances with Opera Philadelphia as Florestan in Fidelio, the Portland Opera as Peter Quint in Turn of the Screw, and the San Diego Opera in the title role of Peter Grimes. His extensive concert schedule includes an 
appearance with the Rotterdam Philharmonic in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde under the baton of Valery Gergiev, and performances of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony with the New York Philharmonic under Maestro Lorin Maazel, the San Francisco Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, the Zürich Tonhalle Orchester under Maestro David Zinman, as well as with the Milwaukee Symphony. He will also re-unite with Maestro Seiji Ozawa with the Berlin Philharmonic in Mendelssohn’s Elias and at the Saito Kinen
Festival in Britten’s War Requiem.
Lisa Dames
Lisa Dames is neither timid nor cold. She is a sassy, sexy wife and mother who is making her mark on country music. On Dames’ new album, No One Like Me, she explores her songs from the inside out, investing each one with a sense of urgency ripped from her own life. A life that could have been inconsequential in someone else’s hands. “There seems to be a prevailing thought that once a woman gets married and has kids, she stops being a woman,” comments Dames. “I tend to believe the opposite—that a woman may get married and have kids, but first and foremost she’s a woman.” Visit her web site at www.lisadames.com for more information.
