FRI DEC 12, 2025 | 11 AM & 7:30 PM
SAT DEC 13, 2025 | 2 PM & 7:30 PM
SUN DEC 14, 2025 | 2 PM & 7 PM
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John Morris Russell conductor
Cody Fry vocalist
Cincinnati Studio for Dance
May Festival Youth Chorus
Sycamore High School Select Ensemble
School for Creative and Performing Arts Chorale and Meridian 8
Winton Woods High School Varsity Ensemble
O Tannenbaum — Traditional
There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays — Robert Allen/Al Stillman
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas/This Christmas — Meredith Willson/ Donny Hathaway/ Nadine McKinner
I'll Be Home for Christmas — Buck Ram/Kim Gannon
Christmas Waltz/Waltz of the Flowers — Sammy Cahn/Jule Styne/Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Festive Sounds of Hanukkah ("A Candle is a Small Thing") — Traditional
Little Bolero Boy — Maurice Ravel/Katherine Kennicott Davis
Siyahamba — Traditional
Jingle Bell Rock — Joe Beal
INTERMISSION
Angels We Have Heard on High — Traditional
Sugar Plum/Favorite Christmas Movies — Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Christmas Song — Mel Tormé /Robert Wells
Christmas Concerto ("‘Twas the Night Before Christmas") — Arcangelo Corelli
Jolly Old St. Nicholas/Santa Claus is Coming to Town — John Frederick Coots/Haven Gillespie
A Suite of Carols — Traditional
What a Wonderful World — Bob Thiele/George David Weiss
We Wish You a Merry Christmas — Traditional
Program subject to change.
The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra is grateful to Pops Season Presenter PNC, Concert Sponsor Graeter's Ice Cream and Associate Sponsor AARP Ohio.
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.
November & December 2025
Welcome to the second issue of the 2025-26 Season! Read about how Cristian Măcelaru's legacy intertwines with that of George Enescu, the health benefits of live music and the newest additions to the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
