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Circus Flora, Saint Louis Symphony tell Dylan Thomas tale

 

For The Telegraph/DAN DONOVAN
“A Child’s Christmas in Wales”
The Saint Louis Symphony and Circus Flora will perform “A Child’s Christmas in Wales,” a holiday fusion of classical music and big top circus acts, Friday through Sunday at Powell Hall. This is the organizations’ first holiday show and concert together.
By JILL MOON
The Telegraph
December 11, 2012
When the Saint Louis Symphony and Circus Flora get together for the holidays, they bring the gift of performance to audiences with this year’s “A Child’s Christmas in Wales.”
Although the two organizations have partnered before, “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” will be their first holiday show and concert together. The Saint Louis Symphony and its Grand Center neighbor, Circus Flora, will bring a bit of the big top to Powell Hall this Friday through Sunday.
The concerts, based on Dylan Thomas’ poem, “A Child’s Christmas in Wales,” are a holiday fusion of classical music and big top circus acts. The Saint Louis Symphony will perform on stage, while circus performers — including the high-wire-walking Flying Wallendas, foot jugglers and even trained house cats — entertain the audience. Guest conductor Alistair Willis returns to lead the symphony for a Christmas concert with a circus twist appropriate for the entire family.
“It’s all about family, gifts, home, animals and people misbehaving,” Circus Flora co-founder David Balding said. “We’ll tell part of the poem.”
A professional clown from San Francisco, Geoff Hoyle, will read some of the poem, and Circus Flora director Cecil MacKinnon also will read some of it.
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