Let’s be honest: The chances of a white Christmas in the Sonoran Desert is about as likely to happen as the Arizona Cardinals going to Super Bowl LIX in February.
But the Civic Orchestra of Tucson is going to make us feel like we’re in a snowy landscape with their holiday concert this weekend.
“Let it Snow!” features a plethora of holiday carols and tunes, along with light classics, including Brahms’s “Hungarian Dances,” Von Suppé’s Overture to “Poet and Peasant” and the Waltz from the incidental music 20th-century Soviet-Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian wrote for the 1941 play “Masquerade.”
Here’s where the snow comes in: After the ensemble’s 3 p.m. performance Sunday, Dec. 8, at El Conquistador Resort, 10000 N. Oracle Road in Oro Valley, the hotel will make snow for a reception on its Colibri patio.
In Tucson, we’ll take what we can get.
Sunday’s performance is a partnership with El Conquistador. The concert features violin soloist Rafael Reyes-Worman performing the first movement of Mozart’s First Violin Concerto. Admission is free, but donations are accepted.
Civic Orchestra of Tucson, under the baton of its Music Director Keun Oh, will perform the concert in Green Valley at 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, at the Green Valley Rec West Center, 1111 S. GVR Drive. That concert will feature the orchestra’s principal cellist Steve Bryan playing the first movement of Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 4.
Tickets are $15 for Green Valley Rec members, $20 for non-members by calling 520-625-3440 or online at cotmusic.org.
