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Christmas
Holiday Spectacular
Sunday, December 13,
2009 • 3:00 p.m.
Brian Katona, guest conductor
John Peter Holly, narrator
New Jersey Youth Chorus
Trish Joyce, conductor
and Santa Claus!
Back by popular demand after a one-year hiatus, the GTSO’s
Christmas Holiday Spectacular returns to the War Memorial stage featuring the
70-voice New Jersey Youth Chorus and the GTSO’s 65 musicians in a program of popular and traditional music of the holiday season including excerpts from
“The Nutcracker,” "The Polar
Express" "Babes in Toyland" (March of
the Toys) and other time-honored favorites. We are very
pleased to welcome the members of the New Jersey Youth
Chorus and their director, Trish Joyce, for such
selections as John Rutter's "Candlelight
Carol," "Two Old World Carols,"
the famous Evening Prayer and Dream Pantomime from Hansel
& Gretel and two selections from the film "Home
Alone." As usual, Santa Claus will stop by
for his annual visit to the War Memorial.
Tickets: $20, $25, $30, $35, $40
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New
Year's Eve Concert
Thurs., December 31,
2009 • 8:00 p.m.
John Peter Holly, conductor
Brian Katona, conductor
Aaron Blankfield, tenor
Steven Ryan, pianist
Our 18th annual New Year's Eve Concert will feature an outstanding program of popular & symphonic selections including
Richard Wagner's Prelude to Die Meistersinger,
Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1, Dvorak's Slavonic
Dance No. 1, Three Latin American Dances
including the very exciting Malagueña by Ernesto
Lecuona. Pianist Steven Ryan will join the
orchestra for performances famous movie themes from Franco
Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet and Billy Wilder's The
Apartment. Sensational young tenor Aaron Blankfield
returns to sing a selection of exciting operatic arias by
Verdi and Puccini.
Please order your tickets
to this concert early because, as in past years, this concert is definitely expected to be
sold-out!
Tickets: $25, $35, $45, $55, $65
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Philadelphia Sinfonia
Sunday, February 21,
2010 • 3:00 pm
Gary White,
conductor
Program
• Alexander Borodin’s
Polovetsian Dances
• Dimitri Shostakovitch’s
Symphony No. 1
• Franz Schubert’s
Rosamunde Overture
• Adagietto from Mahler’s
Symphony No. 5
We are pleased
once again to present a special performance by the Philadelphia Sinfonia, one of the nation's outstanding symphony orchestras for young musicians. Based in Philadelphia and heard
regularly in concert at the Kimmel Center, this ensemble of 100 professional-caliber orchestral musicians thrilled and delighted our Trenton audience at the War Memorial
in their past performances. The audience response to that concert was so positive that we decided to invite them back again this season for another
program of large-scale orchestral works. Don’t miss this exciting concert featuring
specially reduced ticket prices!
For further
information about the Philadelphia Sinfonia, visit
www.philadelphiasinfonia.com
Tickets: $25, $20, $15, $10, $5
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