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David Benoit Celebrating Christmas with Snoopy, Charlie Brown, the All-American Boys Chorus and Jazz Singer Jane Monheit
The David Benoit Christmas Tribute to Charlie Brown has quickly become an essential holiday treat at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center.
Performed by one of the greatest living jazz pianists, the David Benoit Christmas Tribute to Charlie Brown has quickly become an essential holiday treat at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center. This year will mark Mr. Benoit’s third straight season performing classic Vince Guaraldi Christmas tunes from the celebrated holiday TV special “A Charlie Brown Christmas.”
When he first appeared at the Carpenter Center in 2013, a special musical relationship was born when Executive Director Michele Roberge paired him with the All-American Boys Chorus, a group comprised of boys ages 8-15. She suggested the AABC based on their well-received prior Carpenter Center performance, their outstanding musicianship and professionalism, and their prior collaborations with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Pacific Symphony.
“Every venue is responsible for coming up with a children’s choir,” he explained. “The Carpenter Center came up with the All-American Boys Chorus. They were easily, hands-down the best chorus we’ve worked with.”
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When Mr. Benoit and the All-American Boys Chorus return to the Carpenter Center stage on Dec. 19, it will be as fellow recording artists. Their musical relationship was so successful that it burgeoned into a new recording of holiday songs entitled “Believe,” which was released in October.
The chorus joined Mr. Benoit once again to record the ABC special “It’s Your 50thChristmas, Charlie Brown” which is scheduled to air Nov. 30.
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For the first time this December, Mr. Benoit and the chorus will be joined on the Carpenter Center stage by jazz singer Jane Monheit, who performed two scintillating sold-out cabaret shows at the theatre last October.
Mr. Benoit said he especially values the incredible range of Ms. Monheit’s voice, as well as her ability to evoke the innocence of childhood in her Christmas song renditions.
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David Benoit Christmas Tribute to Charlie Brown Dec. 19, 8 p.m. (562) 985-7000