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Christmas Music
Holiday Treasures from Russia 
Kennedy Center Concert Hall
 Monday, December 19, 2011 | 7:00pm*  ||  Wednesday, December 21, 2011 | | 7:00pm
Saturday, December 24, 2011 | 1:00pm
* 31st Annual Holiday Concert & Benefit , limited seating
His excellency, the Ambassador of Russia and Mrs. Sergey I. Kislyak, honorary patrons
 
 

PROGRAM
 This longtime holiday crowd pleaser will faithfully delight audiences with a magical mix of Russian carols, Christmas classics, beloved sing-alongs, and popular holiday standards. Joined by the world-acclaimed 80-piece Ural Philharmonic Orchestra directly from the Russian Federation, this Russian feast for the ears is the only way to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year.
 
The December 24 concert also features a 45-minute bonus orchestral performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade following the conclusion of the normal concert programming.
 
“This [Ural Philharmonic] Orchestra with its performing, concentrated on rhythm, audio colours and bold dynamism has never been heard in the Geneva Victoria Hall. As if the public, enchanted by the sounds of strings and brasses of the Orchestra conducted by Dmitry Liss, was at the birth of the most brilliant features of the music culture of the West-European continent." Switzerland’s Tribune de Genève
 

Masters in this Hall                                    Traditional French (arr. David Willcocks)
Jauchzet, Frohlocket!                                 Johann Sebastian Bach
    (from Christmas Oratorio)
Schlafe, Mein Liebster                                Johann Sebastian Bach
    (from Christmas Oratorio)
The Holly and The Ivy                                 Traditional English (arr. John Rutter)
In Dulci Jubilo                                            Traditional German (arr. John Rutter)
Ave Maria                                                  Sergei Rachmaninoff
    (from Vespers)  
Movement No. 20                                       Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev
    (from Christmas Oratorio) 
Movement No. 28                                       Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev
    (from Christmas Oratorio)
Cradle Song                                               Alexander Gretchaninoff
Jester’s Dance                                           Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    (from Snow Maiden) 
 Waltz Scene                                              Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    (from Eugene Onegin) 
Joy to the World*                                       George Frideric Handel (arr. John Rutter)
Josef, lieber Josef Mein        T                   Traditional German (arr. Norman Scribner)
The Babe of Bethlehem                               Edmund Walters
Ave Maria                                                  Franz Schubert
 Silent Night*                                             Franz Gruber – one verse in Russian
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing*                    Traditional English (arr. David Willcocks)
 Hallelujah!                                                George Frideric Handel
    (from Messiah)  
 
* Audience Carol

All programming is subject to change.

 
 
      The box office for  this
        concert is  now closed.  
ARTISTS
 Norman Scribner, conductor
Irina Shishkova, mezzo-soprano*
Ural Philharmonic Orchestra I Dmitry Liss, music director*
Enkhbaatar Baatarzhyvan, guest conductor*
The Choral Arts Chorus
 
*Subject to change
  
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