More than 300 members from MSU’s Symphony Orchestra and Choirs bring the joy and spirit of the season to life in this holiday music tradition. A concert for the entire family, a variety of holiday favorites are included, from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker and Handel’s Messiah, to Anderson’s Sleigh Ride and audience singalong. Jonathan Reed, Sandra Snow, and Octavio Más-Arocas, conductors.
The full Holiday Cheer program includes: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (arr. Arthur Harris) by Charles Wesley; Waltz of the Flowers (from The Nutcracker) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; Gloria by John Rutter; O Holy Night (for cello and orchestra) by Chad Rehmann; select movements from Messiah by George Frideric Handel; Radetzky March by Johann Strauss; Sleigh Ride by Leroy Anderson; and A Holly and Jolly Sing Along by James M. Stephenson.
Generously sponsored by Interim President Teresa K. Woodruff, Ph.D., Thomas V. O’Halloran, Ph.D., Ann, John and Abby Lindley, and a donor family with the hope this concert touches our spirit and brings peace and joy to all this season and in the coming year.
