This performance replaces John Morris Russell’s Holiday Pops, originally scheduled Thursday, December 17; Friday, December 18; Saturday, December 19; and Sunday, December 20.

JoAnn Falletta takes the Holiday Pops podium to conduct your BPO Brass in a variety of the season’s best-known works including selections from The Nutcracker, Carol of the Bells, and Anderson’s popular Christmas Festival Overture.

This performance is part of our BPOnDemand video-streamed series. There will be no live audience at Kleinhans Music Hall for this performance. For more information on BPOnDemand, please visit our 2020-21 season FAQ page.

All 2020-21 subscribers receive FREE access to BPOnDemand performances, but must register in advance. Please contact the Box Office at (716) 885-5000 or boxoffice@bpo.org to register for this event.

Moog is pleased to sponsor Music Director JoAnn Falletta’s appearance as program conductor.

This concert is proudly sponsored by National Fuel.

Program

JoAnn Falletta, conductor

HERBERT/Allen  March of the Toys from Babes in Toyland
arr. Kazdin  The Twelve Days of Christmas
arr. Hanson  I Wonder As I Wander
TCHAIKOVSKY/Allen  Suite from The Nutcracker
Overture
March
Chinese (Tea)
Arabian (Coffee)
Russian (Trepak)
DARIN KELLY  Of Nights and Lights
arr. Marlatt  Ding Dong Merrily on High
BRAHMS/Allen  Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen (Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming)
LEONTOVICH/Hanson  Carol of the Bells
ANDERSON/Armstrong  A Christmas Festival
ANDERSON/Villanueva  Sleigh Ride