“The show will go on for the Minot Symphony Orchestra’s annual holiday show, but it will have a different feel due to the pandemic,” reports Faith Hatton in Tuesday’s (12/8) KFYR (Bismarck, N.D.). “Following in the path of other concerts going virtual, the MSO’s ‘Home for the Holidays’ [program] will be coming to you not only from the stage, but from the musicians’ homes to yours.… ‘Home for the Holidays’ will feature individual ensembles with orchestra members, and for some, their families. ‘We were asked if we could volunteer five to nine minutes, little segments of times in family groupings, so I arranged a couple of duets for myself and my daughter,’ said [Concertmaster] Jon Rumney.… Performers said they were able to gather and … get creative with their pieces. ‘All six of us got together on Saturday and we recorded a unique version of the Ukrainian Bell Carol with lyrics rewritten [to acknowledge] Covid in kind of a jazz style,’ said [cellist] Erik Anderson…. The concert will be streamed one time only on Dec. 12 at 7:30 p.m.”
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