News release Public Information Office  SLU 10880   Hammond, LA 70402   phone: 985-549-2341   fax: 985-549-2061 publicinfo@selu.edu Spring 2004 news releases Public Information home News archive Contact: Christina Chapple Date: 11/29/04   COLUMBIA THEATRE'S LPO CONCERT IS MUSICAL HOLIDAY TRADITION      HAMMOND – Festival sounds of the holiday season will fill the Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts on Dec. 3, compliments of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra.      A limited number of tickets are still available for the 7 p.m. “Holiday Classics” concert, which is fast becoming a community holiday favorite at Southeastern Louisiana University’s historic downtown Hammond theater.      Conducted by Timothy Muffitt, the orchestra will perform a variety of holiday favorites ranging from Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker” to carols such as “What Child is This?” and “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” to “We Three Kings so Unfinished Are,” a work based on Schubert’s “Unfinished Symphony.”      A Hammond area student will be the guest conductor for one of the evening’s musical selections. The young conductor-for-a-night was chosen through a drawing from among the approximately 150 area school children who created ornaments for the holiday tree in the Columbia Theatre lobby.       Tickets for Holiday Classics are $32, Orchestra 1 and Loge; $30, Orchestra 2 and Balcony 1; $20, Orchestra 3; and $19 Balcony 2.       Tickets are available through Ticketweb --  www.ticketweb.com -- and at the Columbia box office, 985-543-4371. The box office, located in the theater's lobby at 220 E. Thomas Street, is open from noon to 5 p.m, weekdays.