Featuring: SPO, Ronald Royer, Conductor, Bel Canto Choir, Michael Morgan, Conductor, SPO Women’s Choir, Yiping Chao, Conductor
Make your own memories when you join the SPO in an holiday concert of festive music new and old from around the world and our own Scarborough backyard
Festive Music, for Orchestra
Johannes Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Jean Sibelius: Karelia Suite, Op. 11
Brandon Walker: Snowflakes and Laughter. (SPO commission and premiere)
Hindemith: March from Symphonic Metamorphosis, of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
John Williams: The Raiders March from Raiders of the Lost Ark
Holiday Music, for Choir and Orchestra
Howard Cable, arranger: A Merry Christmas Medley
John Rutter : Star Carol
John Williams (Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse): Somewhere in My Memory, from Three Holiday Songs from Home Alone.
David Willcocks: “O Come, All Ye Faithful”
Kevin Lau, arranger: Jingle Bells
Traditional – We Wish You a Merry Christmas, audience sing-along