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Carols and Cheer

Carols and Cheer 2018

Scott Blankenship and T. Mychael Rambo review their favorite carols this holiday season. Audiences will love singing along as they share their top picks for the Christmas season, performed by today's leading artists and ensembles.

Program

• Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride — Boston Pops Orchestra

• Traditional: It Came Upon A Midnight Clear — Chanticleer

• John Henry Hopkins: We Three Kings — Choral Arts Ensemble

• Traditional: Good King Wenceslas — Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge

• Traditional: Angels We Have Heard on High — Concordia Choir

• Felix Mendelssohn: Hark the Herald Angels Sing — Bach Choir

• Howard Blake: The Snowman: Walking In The Air — Crouch End Festival Chorus

• Franz Gruber: Silent Night — Richard Stoltzman and The Boys Choir of Harlem

• M. Lentovych: Carol of the Bells — Mormon Tabernacle Choir

• Lowel Mason and Isaac Watts: Joy to The World — Mormon Tabernacle Choir

• Eddie Pola/George Wyle: The Most Wonderful Time of The Year — Crouch End Festival Chorus

• Traditional: We Wish You A Merry Christmas — Boston Pops Orchestra and Chorus

• Hugh Martin/Ralph Blane: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas — Thomas Hampson and The SPCO

• Irving Berlin: White Christmas — The Gents

• Mel Torme: The Christmas Song — The Singers

• Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride — Boston Pops Orchestra

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