RMSO - A Classical Christmas

December 8 - Red Deer Lake United Church
December 9 - The Polaris Centre for the Performing Arts

1 hr 55 minutes  (with intermission)

What’s Interesting About This Concert

Franz Joseph Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 collected dust for nearly 200 years in the National Museum in Prague before it became a staple of the cello repertoire. Archivist Oldrich Pulkert came across orchestral parts for Haydn's first — and long thought lost — cello concerto in 1961.

Themes from the Carol Symphony have anchored British TV for decades. Two sections from the First Nowell section were used for the 1943 Children's Hour adaptation of John Masefield's The Box of Delights. The work was later used as the opening and closing titles of the 1984 BBC Television adaptation of the same novel. Prof Hely-Hutchinson later became the BBC's Director of Music, in 1944, until his death in 1947.

During the 1940-1950s, the first movement was used to assist tuning into the BBC's Home Service station before the start of the morning transmission during the Christmas period

The Program

🇺🇸 ANDERSON A Christmas Festival
🇬🇧 VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS Fantasia on Greensleeves
🇦🇹 HAYDN Cello Concerto in C

🇺🇦 HAYMAN (arr) Carol of the Bells
🇬🇧 HELY-HUTCHINSON A Carol Symphony
🇺🇸 SILVESTRI Suite from “The Polar Express”

Featured Artists

🇬🇧 LIZ TREMBLAY RMSO Principal Cellist
🇨🇦 CARLOS FOGGIN RMSO Music Director

Presented by: RMSO (Rocky Mountain Symphony Orchestra)

Genres: Woodwinds, Voice, Strings, Percussion, Orchestra/Large Ensemble, Choral, Chamber Ensembles, Brass