ESO's Holiday favourite, A Very Merry Pops returns to close out our Christmas at the Winspear programming. Program to include Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Sleigh Ride, selections from The Nutcracker, O Come All Ye Faithful, Silent Night, Deck the Halls, and more!
Program
- Silent Night (Gruber)
- O Holy Night (Adam)
- Deck the Halls (Traditional)
- What Child Is This? (Traditional)
- Away in a Manger (Murray/Kirkpatrick)
- Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Marks)
- The Nutcracker: Highlights (Tchaikovsky)
- Carol of the Bells (Leontovich)
- Sleigh Ride (Anderson)
- Ring Those Christmas Bells (Levene)
- Wassail Song (Vaughan Williams)
- The Twelve Gifts of Christmas (Tyzik)
- Winter’s Miracle (Berens)
- A Christmas Scherzo (Sebesky) - Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella / O Come, All Ye Faithful / The Holly and the Ivy / I Saw Three Ships / Here We Come A-Wassailing / O Tannenbaum
Guest Artists
Robert Bernhardt
Conductor
Whitney Leigh Sloan
Soprano
Cantilon Chamber Choir
(Heather Johnson, Artistic Director)
Annie Dugan
Circus Performer (Courtesy of Firefly Theatre & Circus)
Sandra Olarte
Aerialist (Courtesy of Firefly Theatre & Circus)
Dancers from the Edmonton School of Ballet
(Margaret Flynn, Artistic Director)
Ehrentraud Moser
Violin