New Jersey Festival Orchestra “Home for the Holidays”
A Holiday Pops Concert featuring MPAC’s Performing Arts Company, with traditional carols, popular movie themes, Broadway favorites and Holiday brass!
Home for the Holidays will present popular holiday favorites as well as curiosities to welcome in the holiday season. Traditional carols, holiday brass and a host of signature versions of familiar fare will delight including Mykola Leontovych’s atmospheric Carol of the Bells, and Leroy Anderson’s Sleigh Ride and Christmas Festival. Featured artists from MPAC’s Performing Arts School presenting a diverse spectacle of holiday and Broadway classics will charm and remind that it’s family and friends that make this time of the year so special.
Classic movie-lovers can also look forward to cherished music from It’s a Wonderful Life, The Polar Express, Mame and more. Other guests include choruses from Westfield’s Franklin and McKinley Elementary schools celebrating the season with contemporary holiday favorites and a rousing finale presentation from It’s a Wonderful Life.
“We believe there is something for everyone in this performance,” said Maestro David Wroe. “But above all, our program is a vessel for children, parents, grandparents and friends — indeed the entire community — to come together through music and celebrate this unique time of the year.”
The New Jersey Festival Orchestra is one of New Jersey’s premier fully professional regional symphony orchestras. The New Jersey Festival Orchestra’s mission is to promote the world’s legacy of symphonic and operatic music to audiences, involving them in this rich heritage through a diversity of innovative musical and multi-dimensional artistic experiences that stretch the boundaries of traditional classical performances. Furthermore, the New Jersey Festival Orchestra’s mission encompasses education and mentoring initiatives as well as facilitating performances to physically, mentally and economically disadvantaged individuals of New Jersey, with the goal of enhancing their meaningfulness of life, spiritual and cultural awareness, and facilitating participation in the life of their communities otherwise limited by their condition.
The New Jersey Festival Orchestra was formerly the Westfield Symphony Orchestra. In order to continue the WSO’s growth trajectory and appeal to more patrons beyond Westfield – and even to some in Westfield – a name more suited to a statewide and even regional performing arts organization was necessary. WSO has therefore graduated to the next level with a statewide brand. The new name stands for an ongoing celebration of the diversity of music. It is a celebration not only of musical excellence but also of an exciting ability to create experiences that stretch the boundaries of traditional classical performances. Programs will include classics from the orchestral repertory as well as a development of offerings that bring to life the fusion of fine arts and popular culture that have become the hallmark of NJFO excellence. We believe that that our unique and dynamic approach to programming will further bring classical music to life and create an ongoing “festival” of compelling presentations worthy of our new name – New Jersey Festival Orchestra.
New Jersey Festival Orchestra “Home for the Holidays”
A Holiday Pops Concert featuring MPAC’s Performing Arts Company, with traditional carols, popular movie themes, Broadway favorites and Holiday brass!
Home for the Holidays will present popular holiday favorites as well as curiosities to welcome in the holiday season. Traditional carols, holiday brass and a host of signature versions of familiar fare will delight including Mykola Leontovych’s atmospheric Carol of the Bells, and Leroy Anderson’s Sleigh Ride and Christmas Festival. Featured artists from MPAC’s Performing Arts School presenting a diverse spectacle of holiday and Broadway classics will charm and remind that it’s family and friends that make this time of the year so special.
Classic movie-lovers can also look forward to cherished music from It’s a Wonderful Life, The Polar Express, Mame and more. Other guests include choruses from Westfield’s Franklin and McKinley Elementary schools celebrating the season with contemporary holiday favorites and a rousing finale presentation from It’s a Wonderful Life.
“We believe there is something for everyone in this performance,” said Maestro David Wroe. “But above all, our program is a vessel for children, parents, grandparents and friends — indeed the entire community — to come together through music and celebrate this unique time of the year.”
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