Holiday Pops!
Saturday, December 9, 2023 • 7:00 PM
The Concord Band
James O‘Dell, Music Director and Conductor
Melenie Diarbekirian, Artistic Director, Commonwealth Ballet Company
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Program
| Overture to a Winter Festival | James Curnow |
| Suite on Celtic Folk Songs | trans. by Tomohiro Tatebe |
| I. March; II. Air; III. Reel. | |
| Beachscapes, III. Scarborough | Roger Cichy |
| Suite from The Nutcracker | P.I. Tchaikovsky arr. James Curnow |
| Miniature Overture; March; Arabian Dance; Chinese Dance; Russian Dance; Dance of the Reed Pipes; Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy; Waltz of the Flower. | |
| Commonwealth Ballet Company Adele Anderson, Livvy Capello, Mallory Devlin, Angelina Feng, Sage Gendreau-Distler, Cecilia Lapinski, Heather Lardizabal, Nika Lysyj, Snejanna Ostrerov, Elle Ricker, Marina Ricker, Lucia Sabatelli, Nahia Sáenz de Viguera Washa, Maddie Smith, Ava Yadav. | |
Intermission | |
| Three New England Caricatures, I. Jolly Old Roger | James Curnow |
| Three Moods of Hanukkah | arr. Lennie Niehaus |
| Wenceslas Variations | Jay Dawson |
| An Irving Berlin Christmas | arr. Warren Barker |
| Santa Stroll | |
| Saxophone Quartet Tim Moyer (soprano), David Southard (alto), Judy Piermarini (tenor), Dan Shields (baritone). | |
| Sleigh Ride | Leroy Anderson |
| Christmas Sing-A-Long | arr. James D. Ployhar |
| Jake Kinney, song leader Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; O Come, All Ye Faithful; Deck the Halls; Silent Night; The First Noel; Joy to the World; We Wish You a Merry Christmas. | |
| Auld Lang Syne | arr. William Toland |