The yearly holiday performance of G.F. Handel’s “Messiah” is rapidly approaching once more. With a new date this year of Dec. 8, USU Eastern’s Geary Events Center’s doors will open wide to start allowing patrons before the show’s curtain time of 7 p.m. This exciting performance is free to all that choose to attend but it is requested that children be eight years old and older.
Rehearsals are still taking place in the university’s Central Instruction Building (CIB) in the music room each Wednesday at 8 p.m. and Sunday evenings at 7 p.m. Anyone with experience in orchestra or choral are welcome to join the performance. Those that wish to be a part of “Messiah” may simply show up to one of the rehearsals or find the group on Facebook under the name “Eastern Utah Messiah Musicians.”
While this event is usually hosted on the first Sunday in December, it has been pushed to Dec. 8 due to Thanksgiving weekend. “Messiah” was first performed over 275 years ago and is just as popular as ever before.
Those that perform in “Messiah” are not paid to do so; instead, they perform because they have a passion for it. The performance is known throughout the community as a wonderful event that many go back to each year.