EAST MEETS WEST

Featuring: SPO Women’s Choir, Yiping Chao, Conductor and Soprano; SPO Woodwind Quintet, Ted Runcie, Conductor; Kevin Zi-Xiao He, Shakuhachi; David Debono, Piano

Program:

*Ted Runcie: An Anansi Odyssey, for Narrator and Woodwind Quintet  (SPO Commission and Premiere) 

*Elizabeth Raum:  King Lear Fantasy, for Woodwind Quintet

 *Chris Meyer: New Work for Woodwind Quintet (SPO Commission and Premiere) 

 *Kevin Zi-Xiao He: New Work, for Shakuhachi and Piano (SPO Commission and Premiere) 

 Traditional Chinese Music for Soprano or Choir and Piano (Arranged byKevin Zi-Xiao He and *Eugene He) 

  •  Descendants of the Dragon, for Women’s Choir and Piano          
  •   So Many People in This World, for Women’s Choir and Piano 
  •  Slow Colored Lantern Song, for Women’s Choir and Piano 
  •  How Can I Rid My Mind of Her, for Soprano Solo and Piano 
  •  Song of Red Bean, for Soprano Solo and Piano 

* Canadian Composer

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HOLIDAY MEMORIES

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