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The Night Before Christmas Holiday Concert

ABOUT THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS

A musical celebration of the season featuring Whidbey Island Orchestra and storyteller David Ossman.

THE PROGRAM

Tidings of Comfort and Joy, arr. Michael Story

Concert Suite from The Polar Express, Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard, arr. Jerry Brubaker

Sheep May Safely Graze, Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Leopold Stokowski

Christmas Waltz, Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne, arr. Jerry Brubaker

Ave Maria, Charles Gounod, arr. Robert Longfield

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, Johann Sebastian Bach, transcribed for orchestra by Charles J. Roberts

How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Dr. Seuss, Albert Hague, and James Horner

A Festive Fanfare, Brian Balmages

The Christmas Song, Mel Torme and Robert Wells, arr. Bob Krogstad

A Mad Russian’s Christmas, Paul O’Neill, Robert Kinkel, and Peter Tchaikovsky, arr. Bob Phillips

I’ll Be Home For Christmas, Kim Gannon and Walter Kent, arr. Fred Barton

Christmas Sing-Along, arr. Bob Cerulli

‘Twas The Night Before Christmas, Bill Holcombe

Sleigh Ride, Leroy Anderson

TICKETS

$24 | $22 Seniors | ages 18 and under are free

ABOUT WHIDBEY ISLAND ORCHESTRA

The Whidbey Island Orchestra consists of strings, winds, brass and percussion of all abilities and backgrounds. The mission of theOrchestra is to foster a positive musical experience for its musician members and for our local community. We perform for the love of music and for the opportunity to spread the joy of music to Whidbey Island audiences, be they residents or visitors.

Cynthia Morrow, Conductor

Learn more about Whidbey Island Orchestra here.

Earlier Event: December 20
It's a Wonderful Life - SOLD OUT
Later Event: December 28
In Concert: Marley Erickson and Mark Findlay

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.