VSO: Holiday Pops

Main Stage


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This performance is currently available as part of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra 2025-2026 Season.


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Celebrate December with the VSO’s festive music at the Flynn and a visit from Santa! Join Music Director Andrew Crust, guest singers, and your Vermont Symphony Orchestra for a concert that delivers a joyful mood for the season. Enjoy favorites like Sleigh Ride and selections from The Nutcracker, a new commission by Vermont composer Michael Schachter inspired by a Jewish folktale, a rousing audience holiday sing-a-long, a musical reading of selections from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, and more!

 

PROGRAM

Andrew Crust, conductor

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Christmas Overture
 
Richard Hayman - Carol of the Bells
 
Kelly-Marie Murphy - Huron Carol Interlude
 
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on Greensleeves
 
Peter Warlock - Excerpts from "Capriol Suite"
 
Howard Blake - Walking in the Air
 
Sergei Prokofiev - Lieutenant Kijé, op. 60: Troika
 
Delvyn Case - Rocket Sleigh
 
Arr. Sheldon - A Most Wonderful Christmas

Intermission

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Excerpts from The Nutcracker Suite
 
Traditional/Rutter - The Twelve Days of (Vermont) Christmas
 
Arr. John Finnegan - Christmas Sing-a-Long
 
Michael Schachter - TBC
 
Leroy Anderson - Sleigh Ride

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