The Petersburg Symphony Orchestra is presenting “Festive Holiday Favorites,” a holiday concert featuring Handel’s “The Messiah Overture” and other favorites, at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 5, at the Petersburg Public Library Auditorium, 201 Washington St. in Petersburg.

Two conductors will be featured during the program, Emmanuel Barks, a public school educator and co-assistant conductor of Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, and violinist Naima Burrs, an instrumental music professor at Virginia State University.

Ms. Burrs is the daughter of Lisa Edwards Burrs, a well-known Richmond area vocalist who is on the faculty at Longwood University and formerly taught vocal music at Virginia State University, and Stacy L. Burrs, former chief executive officer of the Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia.

Ms. Burrs will be an assistant conductor and artist in residence with the orchestra this season.

The PSO has been “working hard to regain our rhythm” following the death in August of its longtime music director and conductor Ulysses Kirksey, said Brian C. Little Sr., executive director of the symphony.

“The Petersburg Symphony continues to survive even in these transitional times,” said Dr. Kenneth Lewis, PSO board president. “It is the music and the community that keeps us going.”

Because of COVID-19 restrictions, the performance will be both virtual and in-person and will last a little more than an hour with no intermission.

Tickets are $10 for both in-person and virtual attendance and are available on Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ petersburg-symphony-orchestra-festive-holiday-music-tickets213073728257?aff=erelexpmlt

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