Danielle Sinclair
The Westminster Community Orchestra, conducted by Ruth Ochs, will present their annual family holiday concert “Holiday Favorites and Sing-along” on Wednesday, December 11, at 7:30 p.m. in Hillman Hall, at the Cullen Center, on the Westminster Choir College campus, Walnut Lane.
While the performance is free, the orchestra will continue its long-standing tradition of accepting freewill cash donations at the door to benefit and be distributed to area food pantries and service organizations. Audience members requiring seating assistance should arrive at 7:15 p.m.
The performance will feature Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Dance of the Tumblers” from The Snow Maiden, Frederick Delius’s “Sleigh Ride,” Samuel Coleridge Taylor’s Christmas Overture, “Festive Sounds of Hanukkah” (arranged by Bill Holcombe), and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Westminster Conservatory faculty member Danielle Sinclair will join the orchestra for two traditional carols, “Or vous Tremoussez Pasteurs de Judee” (Make Merry, Shepherds of Judea) and “El Noi de la Mare” (The Child of the Mother), with former Westminster Honors Program student Julianna Wong, mezzo-soprano. The concert will also include other Christmas favorites, and the audience is invited to lend their voices in John Finnegan’s popular Christmas Sing-along. more
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