GLORIES RING

This festive program celebrates the magic of the season with an orchestral journey through cherished holiday classics and whimsical winter masterpieces.

PROGRAM

Leroy Anderson: A Christmas Festival

Steven Amundson: Glories Ring

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Marche, from The Nutcracker

Ottorino Respighi: Tarantella, from La Boutique Fantasque (The Magic Toyshop)

Leopold Mozart: Menuetto, from Kindersinfonie (Toy Symphony)

Victor Herbert: March of the Toy Soldiers, from Babes in Toyland

Irving Berlin (arr. Bennett): White Christmas

Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride

Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri (arr. Brubaker): Concert Suite from The Polar Express

INTERMISSION

Craig Courtney: Holiday Pops Overture

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on “Greensleeves”

Robert Wendel: Little Bolero Boy

Leroy Anderson: O Little Town of Bethlehem, from Suite of Carols

Felix Mendelssohn (arr. Dragon): Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Johann Sebastian Bach (arr. Cailliet): Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring

Arthur Harris: Good King Wenceslas

Robert Wendel: A Merry Christmas Sing-Along

Hershy Kay: Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly