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4A Daily News – Thursday, November 8, 2012 Pastimes Concert to benefit school music programs Master of Ceremonies Patty Glaspy and her Fire Flies will light up the stage followed by Tap Dancer extrordinaire Carmel Growney. The evening gets brighter when the stars come out with Loosely Strung, a light and lovely trio; Sports Brahs, amazing harmonies with a comic twist; the angelic sound of the Bee Eaters, The Vandolins and Brian Birkes with Mumble Finger. You are invited to let your light shine at the "Night of the Fire Flies'' benefit concert for the K through 8th grad music departments of the Red Bluff and Antelope school districts at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1 at the State Theatre in Red Bluff Sponsors include Rolling Hills Casino, PremierWest Bank, The Copy Center, Remax Top Properties, Wheel- er Logging, Growney Motors, Patty Glaspy Massage Practitioner, Cornerstone Community Bank and Red Bluff Chrysler Dodge. Tickets on sale now at Sky River Music or on line at Symphony Fall Concert The Shasta Youth Symphony's Fall Concert will be at 3:15 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 18, in the Shasta College Theatre. Shasta College Youth As a feature of this season-changing "Whet Your Appetite" concert just before Thanksgiving, the Youth Symphony will be featuring works of Tschaikovsky with some members of the Redding Ballet, conducted by Ms. Cindy Michaels, as an interesting finale to a short concert. A work by Tschaikovsky opens the concert in the Courtesy photo last Movement of his Symphony No. 2, "The Little Russian Symphony, and concludes with the ballet, "Mother Ginger," a movement from the Nutcracker, which will serve as a "petite introduction" and interest whetter for the larger Nutcracker Ballet traditionally done at a later time in the Cascade Theatre. Other works in the concert will include Simple Gifts, an old Shaker Melody, arranged by Marsha Chusmir Shapiro, Romany Dances by Elliot del Borgo, and a String Work from Louisiana by Cathy Morris, entitled Bayou Self, a Cajun crowd pleaser. With a smaller orchestra this year, a new set of pieces is presented to amuse and train students and audience alike. Come join us for a short fun session. Admission is $3 and tickets are available in advance through the Shasta College website at http://www.shas- tacollege.edu/youth_orchestra/ or at the Shasta College Box Office one hour before the performance. For more information call the Division of Arts, Communications & Social Sciences at 242-7730. Film festival seeks entries The Active 20-30 Club of Redding is proud to announce that entries for the 5th Annual Sundial Film Festival are now being accepted online at www.sundi- alfilmfestival.com. Organizers are calling on individuals from all back- grounds and ages, especially Northern Californians, to submit short films and photos for the Festival. The SFF is being held on March 9, 2013 at the Cascade Theater in Redding. To be considered, all entries must be received by Jan. 3, 2013. Foundation, the SFF promotes guiding objectives to educate and foster film and photography production among people who hope to discover an interest or career using the medium. For questions, call Lucky Jesrani at 255-4911. All entries will be judged for creativity, quality and originality by a diverse jury selected by the SFF orga- nizers, which will include: filmmakers, photographers, critics, educators, and interested others. Winners will be announced either before or on the day of the festival. Winners for each category will win cash prizes. Organized by the Active 20-30 Club of Redding The State Theatre for the Arts recognizes Rose Crain, son Dan Davidson, and granddaughters Samantha Davidson and Amanda Davidson for their support of the State Theatre capital campaign.This family has contributed a sizable amount to the campaign, qualifying them for naming rights for the theater stage, which shall now be known as the Haleakala Stage at the historic State Theatre. The group would also like to thank the entire community, which has now contributed a total of $375,000 toward the purchase of the theater since the start of the capital campaign in March 2011. Glorious Sounds of the Season! CSU, Chico's Depart- ment of Music and The- atre gets the holiday sea- son off to a resounding start with the annual Glo- rious Sounds of the Sea- son! concerts. Proceeds from the performances go towards music scholar- ships for CSU, Chico stu- dents. www.statetheatreredbluff.com for $20 for adults and $5 for children. Arts & entertainment Family donates to State Theatre Presented Dec. 7-8 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 9 at 2 p.m. in Harlen Adams Theatre, Glorious Sounds of the Season! has become a Chico-area hol- iday tradition. Sold-out performances have become the norm the past several years. Dr. David Scholz recom- mends anyone interested in attending one of the concerts purchase a ticket "sooner than later" to insure getting a good seat. Glorious Sounds of the Season! features various music ensembles from the department, including the Wind Ensemble, Jazz X-Press, A Cappella Choir, Brass Choir, Chamber Singers, and the University Chorus, as well as student and facul- Concert coordinator ty soloists, small ensem- bles and performers from the Chico community, including the Children's Choir of Chico. The Cen- tennial Organ is also fea- tured during the perfor- mances. There will be several opportunities for the audi- ence to join in with the performers by singing along on various seasonal favorites, such as "Silent Night," "Deck the Halls" and "Jingle Bells." All in all, more than 25 musical selections will be performed. "This is a unique holi- day concert because the Shasta County's favorite holiday tradition returns to the historic Cascade Theatre in Redding as Jefferson Public Radio and the Cas- cade present a two week run of A Cascade Christmas beginning Thanksgiving weekend. Downtown Red Bluff Business Association & Many Business Community Co-Sponsors bring to you Appreciation Breakfast Veteran's 8am to Noon Nov. 11th Veteran's Memorial Hall Oak & Jackson St. in RB Plus a Peppy Patriotic Program with live entertainment Complementary to Veterans, Non-Veteran tickets $5.00 each Tickets are available at the Gold Exchange, Sugar Shack Café, Tremont Café, Crystal Art & Apparel, and at the door. Call 528-8000 for more information audience will hear such a variety of fabulous musi- cal ensembles in one night," said Scholz. "It is a fast-paced concert with groups performing not only from the stage area, but from the aisles of the theater as well. Since we move from piece to piece with no applause, the time passes very quickly. People in the audience don't even realize that 90 minutes have flown by." While proceeds from the concerts benefit music students in the form of scholarships, Scholz said "The department never loses sight that Glorious Nine performances of the completely revamped holiday themed showcase of song, dance and theatre are scheduled, featuring some of the region's finest dancers, singers and actors. Jana Pulcini-Leard returns to the director's chair again to lead the pro- fessional regional theatre group. Pulcini-Leard has been a staple of musical theatre in Redding for almost a decade, and has had overwhelming success with all her efforts on the Cascade Theatre stage, including former produc- tions of A Cascade Christ- mas, The Sound of Music and this year's spring pro- duction of the wildly lauded Hairspray. Sounds of the Season! is also a way of giving back to the Chico community." "The Music Depart- ment develops closer ties to the residents of Chico, and many locals look for- ward to this concert every year," he said. "Glorious Sounds of the Season! really helps to put every- one in that holiday mood." Advance tickets, at $20 for all seats, are available in at the University Box Office (898-6333); add $2 for tickets purchased at the door. For disability- related accommodations, call 898-4325. Cascade Christmas showcases holiday spirit Public performances of A Cascade Christmas begin the day after Thanksgiving on Friday, November 23rd, with two performances at 2 and 7pm. Additional evening and selected mati- nee showings continue on Saturday, Sunday and the following Thursday through Saturday. Additional morn- ing performances of the show will also be held dur- ing the run for regional school field trips by special arrangement. Tickets can be purchased online at www.cascadethe- atre.org or by phone at 530- 243-8877. The Cascade Theatre/Jefferson Public Radio Performance Series is sponsored by US Bank.