Holiday Pops 2022
Season Sponsor
Program
- Saturday, December 17, at 3pm and 7:30pm
- Wednesday, December 21, at 4pm and 8pm
KEITH LOCKHART conducting
with the Metropolitan Chorale, Lisa Graham, director
HOLIDAY POPS SEASON SPONSORED BY FIDELITY INVESTMENTS
On Christmas Night
Burton
Christmas Canticles
O’Loughlin
Ma’oz Tzur (Rock of Ages)
arr. Binder/Jacobson
Drey Dreydeleh
Ellstein/Oysher-Jacobson/Hollenbeck
Fantasia on Greensleeves (What Child Is This?)
Vaughan Williams
Dance of the Tumblers, from The Snow Maiden
Rimsky-Korsakov
Two Ukrainian Carols
Dobryy vechir tobi (Good Evening to You)
Trad.-Elliott
Carol of the Bells
Trad.-Leontovych/Wilhousky/Courage
Noche de Posadas (The Night of Las Posadas) (world premiere)
Rodríguez
Text and images by Tomie dePaola | Additional text by Arturo Rodríguez
Karina Beleno Carney, narrator (12/17 at 3pm)
Melinda Lopez, narrator (12/17 at 7:30pm & 12/21)
INTERMISSION
The Twelve Days of Christmas
arr. Chase
God Rest Ye, Merry Kings
arr. Mathes
’Twas the Night Before Christmas
Text by Clement C. Moore
Narrated version (A Visit from St. Nicholas): Reisman | Artwork by Jan Brett
Vocal version: Darby-Simeone
Sleigh Ride
Instrumental version: Anderson
Vocal version: Anderson/Parish-Goldberg/Burton
Frosty All the Way!
arr. Sebesky
A Merry Little Sing-Along
arr. Reisman
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- Let It Snow! Let it Snow! Let It Snow!
- The Christmas Song
- Winter Wonderland
- Jingle Bells
Photo and video of these performances are allowed for personal use only, including posting on social media; we may ask you to refrain from taking photos or videos if it interferes with the performance or other attendees’ enjoyment of it.
The Boston Pops welcomes:
- 12/17 at 3pm: Steven Charbonnier, Mr. Jack Diamond, Harvard Outings & Innings, Harvard University Retirees Association, Claire Hughes Household, David and Barbara Leahy Household, Leisman Insurance Agency, Inc., The Spence School
- 12/17 at 7:30pm: Vincent Cucchiara, Mr. Daniel J. Fennell
- 12/21 at 4pm: Mr. William C. Brace, Caroline Hooper, North Hill, Soldier’s Home
- 12/21 at 8pm: Belmont High School Band Program, Mr. John Webster
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Program Notes
Artists
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Keith Lockhart
Keith Lockhart is the second longest-tenured conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra since its founding in 1885. He took over as conductor in 1995, following John Williams’s thirteen-year tenure from 1980 to 1993. Keith Lockhart, who occupies the Julian and Eunice Cohen Boston Pops Conductor chair, has conducted more than 2,000 Boston Pops concerts and annual Boston Pops appearances at Tanglewood, as well as 45 national tours and four international tours to Japan and Korea. The annual Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular conducted by Mr. Lockhart draws a live audience of over half a million to the Charles River Esplanade and millions more who view it on television or live webcast. He has led eight albums on RCA Victor/BMG Classics; recent releases on Boston Pops Recordings include A Boston Pops Christmas–Live from Symphony Hall, The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers, and Lights, Camera…Music! Six Decades of John Williams. The list of nearly 300 guest artists with whom Keith Lockhart has collaborated represents performers from virtually every corner of the entertainment world. Following his eight-year tenure as principal conductor, he is now chief guest conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra in London; he is also artistic director of the Brevard Music Center summer institute and festival in North Carolina. Prior to his BBC appointment, he spent eleven years as music director of the Utah Symphony. He has appeared as a guest conductor with virtually every major symphonic ensemble in North America and many in Asia and Europe. Before coming to Boston, he was the associate conductor of both the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Pops orchestras, as well as music director of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra.
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Karina Beleno Carney
Karina Beleno Carney (she/ella) is delighted to join the Holiday Pops family this year! A Massachusetts-based actor, Karina has appeared this year in Central Square Theater's Young Nerds of Color, Apollinaire Theater's Don't Eat the Mangos, and Huntington Theatre’s Breaking Ground Festival of New Work in Rough Magic. A first-generation Colombian American and mother of three, Karina is thrilled to bring the Latine children’s book The Night of Las Posadas to life with the Boston Pops. As always, she is eminently grateful to Elena, Felicidad, Esben, and Sebastián for their support and encouragement.
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Melinda Lopez
Melinda Lopez is an award-winning playwright and performer and is the recipient of the 2019 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre, recognizing her 20-year career. Her plays include Mala (at Arts Emerson, Guthrie Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, on PBS, and on Audible in both Spanish and English), Yerma (adaptation, Huntington Theatre), Back the Night, Becoming Cuba, Orchids to Octopi, and Sonia Flew (Huntington Theatre, Steppenwolf, National Theatre Festival of Cuba, and more), and Black Beans Project, her digital play (via Zoom), which won the Elliot Norton Award for Best New Play. Melinda also performs on stage, including Our Town at Huntington Theatre, and in film—she’s that fan in Fever Pitch. Melinda was mentioned by President Obama in his speech to the Cuban and American people in 2016, and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh declared October 29, 2016, “Melinda Lopez Day in the City of Boston.” Melinda is currently artist-in-residence at the Huntington Theatre Company and a professor at Northeastern University.
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Lisa Graham
Lisa Graham is music director of the Metropolitan Chorale, a position she has held since 2004. Dr. Graham has shaped the Chorale’s programming to include contemporary, American, and lesser-known works alongside the masterworks of the repertory. She has enhanced the reputation and reach of the Chorale through collaborations with acclaimed artists as well as established composers of our day.
Dr. Graham is the Evelyn Barry Director of Choral Programs and Senior Lecturer at Wellesley College, where she conducts the Wellesley College Choir, Chamber Singers, and Choral Scholars in addition to teaching academic courses in the music department. Under her direction, the Wellesley College Choirs have toured internationally in Canada, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Portugal, South Korea, and the Baltics in addition to annual domestic tours. Both the Chamber Singers and the Choir are featured in the motion picture Mona Lisa Smile.
Familiar to Boston audiences, she has worked with the Handel and Haydn Society and the BSO, and she has toured with and served as cover conductor for the Boston Pops for eight seasons. In 2016, she prepared members of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus for Charles Dutoit's BSO performance of Holst’s The Planets.
Dr. Graham is a founding member, former president, and lifetime honorary member of the National Collegiate Choral Conductor’s Organization. She has served on the board of the Eastern Division American Choral Directors Association and is currently president of the Massachusetts chapter. Dr. Graham is the 2021 winner of the American Prize Dale Warland Award in Choral Conducting. Her masters and doctoral degrees were earned at the University of Southern California.
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Metropolitan Chorale
Founded in 1979, the Metropolitan Chorale is an auditioned chorus that is recognized as one of metropolitan Boston’s premier choral ensembles.
Since 2004, the Metropolitan Chorale has been under the direction of Dr. Lisa Graham who also serves as the Evelyn Barry Director of Choral Programs at Wellesley College. Concerts explore works by many of today’s leading American and British composers, as well as major choral masterworks, including Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Bach’s Mass in B minor, Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony, and Handel’s Israel in Egypt. Programs feature important artists of our day from bass-baritone Justin Hopkins and soprano Estelí Gomez, a lead artist with the Grammy Award-winning Roomful of Teeth, to Robin Young, host of NPR’s nationally syndicated program Here and Now. Commissions include works by Kirke Mechem and Boston-based composer Thomas Vignieri. One of the chorus's most ambitious undertakings was the commissioning of Sh’ma, by Andy Vores, a piece memorializing Holocaust victims and survivors. The piece received recognition by the Boston Globe as one of the best new works of 1996.
In addition to performances at All Saints Parish in Brookline, the Chorale can be heard throughout the Boston area at such prestigious venues as New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall and Sanders Theatre at Harvard University. In December 2013, the Metropolitan Chorale made its Boston Pops debut under the direction of conductor Keith Lockhart on a seven-concert tour of major cities on the East Coast.
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The Boston Pops and Symphony Hall major corporate sponsorships reflect the increasing importance of alliance between business and the arts. The Boston Pops is honored to be associated with the following companies and gratefully acknowledges their partnership. For information regarding BSO, Boston Pops, and/or Tanglewood sponsorship opportunities, contact Joan Jolley, Director of Corporate Partnerships, at (617) 638-9279 or jjolley@bso.org.
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