Jay Ungar and Molly Mason
The University of Mary Washington Philharmonic Holiday POPS concerts, “A Down-Home Christmas,” will be filmed for a PBS holiday special by four-time Emmy-winning producer Jim Brown. The concerts will be held on Thursday, December 8 and Friday, December 9 at George Washington Hall’s Dodd Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10.
The concert, presented by WVPT, will feature Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, composers and performers from the Grammy-winning “Civil War” mini-series by Ken Burns. Ungar composed and performed “Ashokan Farewell,” the title theme of the soundtrack of the mini-series. The concerts coincide with Civil War Sesquicentennial commemorations.
Producer and director Jim Brown has produced award-winning feature documentaries and television programs for numerous media outlets, including PBS, ABC, Fox, Discovery and the Travel Channel. He won Emmy Awards for his feature documentaries “Pete Seeger: The Power of Song,” “We Shall Overcome” and “The Weavers: Wasn’t That a Time!” and for Outstanding Nonfiction Series as part of the PBS series “American Masters.”
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