RPI to host holiday concert Sunday

TROY, N.Y. » The 2017 President’s Holiday Concert at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will take place at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center.

The Rensselaer Orchestra, under the direction of Nicholas DeMaison, will present a semi-staged version of Peer Gynt, the 1867 play written by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen with music composed by Edvard Grieg. The program will include selections from the score Grieg composed to accompany Ibsen’s famous play, which tells the story of the downfall and subsequent redemption of a Norwegian peasant antihero.

The adaptation, which was created by DeMaison, Rebecca Rouse and Jefferson Kielwagen, will unfold in two acts with an intermission. During the performance, a narrator will lead the audience through the sometimesbizarre twists in Ibsen’s narrative, while six puppeteers will manipulate props and scenery, sometimes with live video projection.

Joining the orchestra for the performance will be the Rensselaer Concert Choir, members of the Instrumental Fellows ensemble, members of the student theater group The RPI Players and soprano Kimberley Osburn.

Admission is free, but res-

ervations are requested at http://webforms.rpi.edu/ holiday- concert. A reception will follow.

Wal-Mart worker accused of stealing

BRUNSWICK, N.Y. » An employee at the Wal-Mart store on Hoosick Road was arrested after state police said he twice stole items from the store.

Troopers said they were called to the store Thursday, and a manager told them that on separate occasions, Christon L. Dockery Jr., 19, of Troy, stole a $25 phone card and a can of Red Bull.

Dockery was charged with petit larceny and released on a ticket to appear in Brunswick Town Court.