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Spend a festive afternoon at the movies with some of Hollywood’s seasonal classics and a few surprise stocking fillers as we welcome in Christmas with music from Tinsel Town itself!
Hailed by Jazzwise magazine as ‘Ireland’s leading jazz vocalist’, Cormac Kenevey adds to the festive cheer and charm with his ‘lyrical, soft-edged, late-night tenor’ (BBC Music) lighting up some of the season’s best-loved songs.
Malcolm Arnold’s infectious Fantasy on Christmas Carols from The Holly and the Ivy, starring Ralph Richardson as an Irish clergyman caught between family and parishioners, sets the scene with its beautiful compendium of popular Christmastide melodies.
There’s fun, too, with the delightfully animated March of the Toys from Victor Herbert’s much-filmed operetta Babes in Toyland, Leroy Anderson’s sparkling A Christmas Festival and always exhilarating Sleigh Ride, and the cheeky combination of a patriotic American march and a Christmas classic that is Jingle Bells Forever.
Melody aplenty, too, in Tchaikovsky’s three delightfully sugar-coated pieces from the essential Christmas ballet, The Nutcracker, and all the excitement of Christmas morning in Franz Waxman’s tune-filled take on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
And in between a musical stocking filled with Yuletide treats including Irvin Berlin’s anthemic White Christmas, the glowing warmth of Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire from Nativity 3, the infectious Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! (Elf) and heart-warming Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Meet Me in St Louis).
Programme:
Malcolm Arnold
Fantasy on Christmas Carols (from The Holly and the Ivy)
Victor Herbert
March of the Toys (from Babes in Toyland)
Robert Wells/Mel Tormé
The Christmas Song (‘Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire’) arr. Nelson Riddle
Berlin
White Christmas
Waxman
A Christmas Carol arr. Christopher Palmer
Tchaikovsky
Waltz of the Flowers, March, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker
Anderson
Sleigh Ride
arr. Robert W Smith
Jingle Bells Forever
Hugh Martin/Ralph Blane
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Meet Me in St Louis)
Jules Styne/Sammy Cahn
Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! (Elf)
Anderson
A Christmas Festival
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Venue Information - The National Concert Hall
The National Concert Hall sits proudly on Earlsfort Terrace in Dublin’s city centre and is home to the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Choir Ireland, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Music Network and Music Generation. Next door to the picturesque Iveagh Gardens and in the heart of a commercial district known as the National Concert Hall Quarter, it hosts over 1000 events per annum. Its mission, to foster and celebrate the appreciation, knowledge, enjoyment and pure love of music as an integral part of Irish life.
