FRI DEC 13, 2024 | 11 AM & 7:30 PM
SAT DEC 14, 2024 | 2 PM & 7:30 PM
SUN DEC 15, 2024 | 2 PM & 7 PM
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Samples of the Official Ice Cream of the Holiday Pops, Peppermint Stick Chocolate Chip, will be offered after the following Holiday Pops concerts for a donation benefitting Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestras (CSYO):
Friday, December 13 | 7:30 pm
Saturday, December 14 | 7:30 pm
Sunday, December 15 | 2:00 pm
At all Holiday Pops concerts:
Help FamiliesFORWARD bring holiday joy by donating to our warm clothing drive! FamiliesFORWARD is a learning grove organization that operates family-resource centers and an After-School Program in three economically disadvantaged Cincinnati Public elementary schools and one high school. We are accepting new or gently used warm clothing, especially hats and small coats.
Visit the Founders Room
Stop in to our P&G Founders room to see "Holiday Harmonies," an art exhibition in partnership with Kennedy Heights Art Center's Kennedy Collective.
John Morris Russell, conductor
Norm Lewis, vocalist
The Studio for Dance
May Festival Youth Chorus
School for Creative and Performing Arts Chorale
Sycamore High School Select Ensemble
Ben Schuler, percussion
On Christmas Day — Steven Amundson
Angels We Have Heard on High — Traditional
Silver Bells — Jay Livingston/Ray Evans
Little Drummer Boy — Katherine Kennicott Davis
Dance of the Floreadores from The Nutcracker Suite (for Orchestra)
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
arranged by Edward ‘Duke’ Ellington and Billy Strayhorn;
arranged and adapted by Jeff Tyzik.
Presented under license by Music Sales Corporation o/b/o Itself, Tempo Music, Inc. and Sony/ATV Harmony, copyright owners
“Fairy Dreams” Concertino for Celesta — Michael Kurek
March of the Toys — Victor Herbert
“Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus” with “Nimrod” from Enigma Variations — Edward Elgar
I Believe — Wesley Whatley/William Schermerhorn
Joy to the World — Traditional
INTERMISSION
Of Nights and Lights: A Chanukah Celebration — Darin Kelly
Patapan — Hershey Kay
Santa Does the Mambo — John Greer
Glow — Eric Whitacre
Ave Maria/Oh Holy Night — Franz Schubert/Adolphe Adam
Holiday Sing-Along — Various
Jingle Bells
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Up On the Housetop
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
White Christmas
We Wish You a Merry Christmas — Traditional
The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra is grateful to Pops Season Presenter PNC, Concert Sponsor Graeter’s Ice Cream and Digital Access Partner CVG Airport Authority.
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is grateful for the support of the Louise Dieterle Nippert Musical Arts Fund of the Greenacres Foundation and the Nina Browne Parker Trust, and for the thousands of people who give generously to the ArtsWave Community Campaign, the region’s primary source for arts funding. This project was supported in part by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in-orchestra Steinway piano is made possible in part by the Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trust.
