The Symphony’s annual holiday pops concerts have become a Santa Fe tradition! This season Maestro Guillermo Figueroa leads the Orchestra for a brilliant program packed with winter favorites the entire family can enjoy. Plus, our “future players” at the Santa Fe Youth Symphony—prepared by the Youth Symphony’s Associate Artistic Director and Conductor, William Waag—joins us again for more side-by-side performances.
EXCITING NEWS—We are thrilled to bring back our FREE Preview Talks this season! Be sure to join us one hour before each Lensic performance for 30 minutes of interesting program details presented by Maestro Figueroa, guest soloists, or musicians. Each talk is unique and all ticket holders are invited!
The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra
Guillermo Figueroa, Principal Conductor
The Santa Fe Youth Symphony
PROGRAM
PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY
Selections from The Nutcracker Suite
March
Waltz of the Flowers
Trepak
Mother Ginger and her Children
Christmas Waltz
IRVING BERLIN
White Christmas
ANTONIN DVORAK
Symphony No. 8
(Side by side with The Santa Fe Youth Symphony)
Allegro con brio
LEROY ANDERSON
Sleigh Ride
(Side by side with The Santa Fe Youth Symphony)
Intermission
SAMUEL COLERIDGE TAYLOR
Christmas Overture
MANUEL DE FALLA
Ritual Fire Dance
Guest Conductor Laurie Rossi
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
“Fantasia” on Greensleeves
Arr. LUCAS RICHMAN
Hanukkah Festival Overture
JOHANN STRAUSS
Radetzky March
JAMES STEPHENSON
Holly and Jolly Sing-A-Long
Carmen Flórez-Mansi, Soprano
Guillermo Figueroa, Conductor
One of the most versatile and respected musical artists of his generation—renowned as conductor, violinist, violist and concertmaster—Guillermo Figueroa is the Principal Conductor of The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus. He also serves as the Music Director of the Music in the Mountains Festival in Colorado and Music Director of the Lynn Philharmonia in Florida, and he is the founder of the highly acclaimed Figueroa Music and Arts Project in Albuquerque. He was the Music Director of the New
William Reece Waag, Santa Fe Youth Symphony
William Reece Waag is in his fifth season as Conductor of the Santa Fe Youth Symphony. A passionate music educator, he also works as a guest clinician and mentor in music classrooms across Northern New Mexico. William’s recent guest conducting engagements include the Albuquerque Philharmonic, Seattle Rock Orchestra, The Santa Fe Symphony, El Paso Symphony Youth Orchestra, Albuquerque Youth Symphony, Reading Orchestra, and Honor Orchestras in New Mexico.
Program Notes
Early in 1891, the Maryinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg approached Tchaikovsky with a commission for a new ballet. They caught him at a bad moment. At age 50, Tchaikovsky was assailed by worries that he had written himself out as a composer...…