Holiday Classics

Open Concert Program

Soprano Ania Hejnar and accompanist and composer Andrew Ager perform favourite holiday works from Handel and Tchaikovsky to classic Christmas carols.

Ania Hejnar, soprano
Andrew Ager, piano

Program

“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion” from Messiah (Handel)
Gesù bambino (Pietro Yon)
Dance of the Sugar-plum Fairy, from The Nutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
Silver Bells (Jay Livingston and Ray Evans)
White Christmas (Irving Berlin)
“Edelweiss” from The Sound of Music (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
Dance of the Reed Flutes, from The Nutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
The First Nowell (English traditional)
O Holy Night (Adolphe Adam, John Sullivan Dwight)
Russian Dance, from The Nutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
The Christmas Song “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” (Robert Wells and Mel Tormé)