Co-sponsored by Center for Financial Planning and Kate & Randy Safford

After many years, DCWS Holiday Brass returns to the magnificent Christ Church Cranbrook with choirs from Rochester, Stoney Creek, and Rochester Adams high schools. The following week, the concert is reprised at Detroit’s St. Matthew’s & St. Joseph’s Church with the splendid choir from Ann Arbor Pioneer High School.

ARTISTS

Robert White, trumpet
Scott Thornburg, trumpet
Natalia Vela, trumpet
Ryan Egeler, trumpet
Scott Strong, horn
David Binder, trombone
David Jackson, trombone
Ian Maser, trombone
Adam Rainey, bass trombone
David Zerkel, tuba
Keith Clayes, percussion
Scott Boerma, conductor
Rolfe Dauz, baritone
Rochester High School Choir
Stoney Creek High School Choir
Rochester Adams High School Choir
Ann Arbor Pioneer High School Choir

PROGRAM

Philip W. J. Stopford: Lully, Lulla, Lullay
Felix Mendelssohn arr. David Willcocks: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
George Frideric Handel arr. Roger Harvey: ‘For unto us a Child is Born’ from Messiah
Traditional arr. Keith Snell/Frank Hunter/Kevin Good/Greg McLean: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Suite
Handel arr. Roger Harvey: ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’ from Messiah
Traditional arr. Anthony DiLorenzo: Christmas Toons

-Intermission-

Handel arr. Les Deutsch: Dreidel Song (quintet)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky arr. Duke Ellington trans. Jeremy Van Hoy: Overture to The Nutcracker
Walter Kent/Kim Gannon/Buck Ram: I’ll Be Home for Christmas
Handel arr. Douglas Haislip: Judas Maccabeus Suite
Traditional arr. Elgar Haworth: Greensleeves
Anthony DiLorenzo: ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
Morten Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium
Johann Sebastian Bach/Ludwig van Beethoven/Handel arr. Scott Boerma: Joy!

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