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'We Couldn't Cancel Christmas!:' Battle Creek Symphony Goes Online For Holidays

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Anne Harrigan, music director of the Battle Creek Symphony, joins Cara Lieurance to preview a concert that's getting its final touches in the film editing studio: A Dickens Christmas, which will be released as a free online concert at 7:30 pm on Saturday, Dec 12. Anyone can access the program by registering at the Battle Creek Symphony website.

A small group of players from the symphony, set up in the Record Box Loft in downtown Battle Creek, will play Leroy Anderson's Sleigh Ride, J.S. Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 2, and a musical adaptation ofDicken's  A Christmas Carol, adapted by Matthew Naughtin. 

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Cara Lieurance is the local host of NPR's All Things Considered on 1021 WMUK and covers local arts & culture on Let's Hear It on 89.9 Classical WMUK weekday mornings at 10 - 11 am.