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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!
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