JSO Season 71: Holiday Concert

About this concert

Spirited Christmas music fills the air! Colorado vocalists Christie Conover and James Baumgardner add soaring melodies to your Holiday traditions. Celebrate the Season with music from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, Handel's Messiah, and many more timeless favorites. 

Christie Conover’s rich, warm sound is a “well-focused instrument with a lovely timbre, perfect trill, and soaring top,” [San Francisco Classical Voice]. James Baumgardner's versatile vocal and dramatic performances have delighted many Colorado audiences including those of Opera Colorado, Opera Theatre of the Rockies,  and the Central City Opera.

Repertoire

• TCHAIKOVSKY: The Nutcracker (selections)
• SHELDON: A Most Wonderful Christmas
• ANDERSON: A Christmas Festival
• HANDEL: "Every Valley Shall Be Exalted", from Messiah
• HANDEL: "Rejoice Greatly", from Messiah
• ANDERSON: Sleigh Ride
  
• KROGSTAD: Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire 
• CUSTER: O Holy Night
• CERULL: It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
• WHITNEY: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
  

Featured Artists

• Christie Conover, soprano
• James Baumgardner, tenor
• Dr. J. Arturo González, Music Director and Conductor
• Jefferson Symphony Orchestra