(upbeat music) - Utah Chamber Artists is holding its winter concert, A Christmas Carol, at the Cathedral of the Madeleine.

Artistic director, Barlow Bradford, is here with more about what audiences can expect.

Hi Barlow, thank you for coming back.

Always great to have you.

- Thank you.

- Yeah.

And so let's talk about the big concert at Cathedral of Madeleine, on the 2nd of December.

You said you're focusing on one poem.

- This poem called A Christmas Carol, which is lovely.

It actually talks about sort of the progression of baby Jesus from Mary's lap, until baby Jesus is now a grown man and wears a crown.

And one of the things I loved about this poem is that it really has a universal idea, for every baby, if you will, who starts young and needs to be cared for.

And then as you progress through life, that you, that each of us has the, hopefully, the opportunity that we can wear our own crown.

And that we can do things to then turn around and help others.

Which to me is really a theme of the Christmas time.

And so we wanted to focus on that in this concert.

- Ah, how nice, how nice.

And then all the music, talk about all the music.

- The, it's music something for everybody.

We're gonna have familiar carols.

We'll have very sophisticated acapella pieces by the great choral composers, particularly of England.

And of course that space is something magical, the cathedral.

You know, when you get Utah Chamber Artists in there with our choir and our orchestra.

And you get, it's always packed.

So it's, there's something about it.

Just the synergy of everybody that's in that space of that moment is really quite exciting.

- Now, you are so right, because I've gone to your concerts, and that is a perfect space for them.

- It is beautiful.

- It really is beautiful.

And I know you need tickets for this.

- [Barlow] Actually, you don't need tickets.

- You don't.

Oh, you don't need tickets to attend.

- You can just, no.

Anything in the cathedral is considered to be something for the people.

And so you can come, it's just difficult to get a seat because it's always very crowded.

And so I would advise people that are coming to come a little bit on the early side.

- Get there early.

Okay, well thank you for being here.

Thank you.

- Thank you.

- And if you'd like to know more about that upcoming Utah Chamber Artists, A Christmas Carol, December 2nd at 8:00, Cathedral of the Madeleine, go to utahchamberartists.org.

I'm Mary Dickson.

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