73rd Annual Candlelight & Carols

Saturday, December 9, 2017 at 4:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Free Admission ~ Voluntary offering

The annual “Pasadena Holiday Tradition for the Whole Family” again offers two performances! Take your pick—4:30pm or 7:30pm—because each one offers plenty of audience carol singing, adult and children’s choirs, handbells, and members of the Friends of Music Orchestra.

This year we include three pieces commissioned just for this program by Ryan Whyman, plus a reprise of last year’s hit version of Clement Clarke Moore’s famous poem “The Night Before Christmas,” for narrator accompanied by the Friends of Music Orchestra.

A festive reception follows the 7:30pm performance.

Program:

• O Holy Night/Adolph Adam, arr. Ryan Whyman
• Joy to the World/Isaac Watts, G.F. Handel, arr. Joseph H. Martin
• Classical Ode to Christmas/arr. Greg Gilpin
• I Wonder as I Wander/J.J. Niles, arr. Sondra Tucker
• Winter Fantasy/Jill Gallina, arr. Don Kalbach
• The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy/arr. Brad Nix
• Everybody Wants to be a Santa/Michael & Jill Gallina
• The Night Before Christmas/told by Tom Erickson
• Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine/arr. Donald E. Allured
• ”Rejoice!”/Gwyneth Walker
• Little Drummer Boy/Katherine K. Davis, arr. Ryan Whyman
• Angels We Have Heard on High/arr. Ryan Whyman
• Rejoice and Be Merry/John Rutter

Artists:

• Kirk Choir
• Trinity Choir
• The Pasadena Singers
• Van Etten Handbell Choir
• Rainbow Choir
• Carol Choir
• Crown City Ringers
• Friends of Music Orchestra
• Ryan Whyman
• Rev. Dr. Tom Erickson
• Timothy Howard
• Ho Chu
• F. Thomas Simpson
• Vena Luthey
• Nora de la Torre
• Daniel Parks

Resources:

• View/print the poster