A Very Merry Pops
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A Very Merry Pops

Conducted by Stuart Chafetz
December 22 & 23 7:30 PM / 2:00 PM

Looking for something to do with your family during the holiday break? Great seats are still available!

A Holiday favourite returns! Conductor Stuart Chafetz will take you and your ESO on a jolly sleigh ride through the iconic holiday songs you’ll remember from your childhood. This joyous program includes sentimental tunes such as like Let It Snow, Sleigh Ride, The First Noël, All I Want For Christmas Is You, Joy to the World, and more.


Program to Include

SEBESKYChristmas Scherzo
DiLORENZOFum Fum Fun
STYNELet It Snow
MARTIN / BLANEChristmas Song / Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
DAVISLittle Drummer Boy
MENDELSSOHNHark! The Herald Angels Sing
ZACAR"When a Child is Born"
TCHAIKOVSKYA Klezmer Nutcracker
SILVESTRI"God Bless Us Everyone" (A Christmas Carol)
WILDE / KONECKY"Light The Candles of Freedom"
TRADITIONAL“The First Noël”
GRUBERStille Nacht
SHAYNE / REGNEYDo You Hear What I Hear?
COOTSSanta Claus is Coming to Town
CAREY"All I Want for Christmas is You"
TRADITIONAL"Joy to the World"
ANDERSON"Sleigh Ride"

Program subject to change.

This concert will include an intermission.


Featured Artists

Stuart Chafetz, Conductor
Dee Donasco, Vocals
Greenwood Singers (Dr. Adam Robertson, Artistic Director)


39 - Land Acknowledgement

Land Acknowledgement

The Winspear Centre and Edmonton Symphony Orchestra would like to acknowledge that we are on Treaty 6 Territory, a traditional meeting ground, gathering place, and traveling route for many Indigenous Peoples. We honour and recognize the rich artistic, cultural, and musical traditions of the Cree, Nakota Sioux, Metis, Dene, Saulteaux, and the many more Indigenous communities that call this land we share, home.