December 4 & 5, 2023
www.SOTA.org
Broward Center for the Performing Arts
By Jan Mitchell & Associates
Celebrate the sounds of the holiday season with Symphony of the Americas Holiday POPS! Conducted by Artistic Director Pablo Mielgo and featuring Symphony favorite soprano Kyaunnee Richardson, audiences will delight in the most wonderful time of the year.
Musical memories come alive as The Symphony performs holiday classics, pop hits, and compilations of music covering almost every holiday favorite imaginable. The program includes:
I’ll be Home for Christmas, Silent night, O Holy Night, Sleigh Ride, Bing Crosby’s Mele Kalikimaka, and the traditional Chanukah song Maoz Tzur.
The program also includes the chart-topping, recording-breaking, and joyous bilingual hit Feliz Navidad, written and first recorded in 1970 by Puerto Rican singer-songwriter José Feliciano, and Santa Baby, first recorded by Eartha Kit in 1953 and popularized over the years by artists including Madonna, RuPaul,The Pussycat Dolls, and Arianna Grande.
A Christmas Festival, composed by Leroy Anderson in 1950, cleverly weaves 8 of the most popular holiday songs including Joy to the World, Deck the Halls, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, and Adeste Fidelis.
A Mad Russian’s Christmas, an instrumental piece based on Peter Tchaikovsky’s Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Russian Dance from The Nutcracker.
Fantasia on Greensleeves, a traditional English folk song, was arranged by Ralph Greaves in 1934 into the version we most commonly hear today.
Christmas at the Movies is a lively, unique and entertaining medley featuring excerpts from The Polar Express; Somewhere in My Memory (from “Home Alone”) and the overture from The Nightmare Before Christmas and more.
South Florida native, Kyaunnee Richardson, has performed with orchestras throughout Florida, as well as Utah, Savannah, Washington D.C., and New York. Most recently, Richardson starred as Calpurnia in the world premiere of The Secret River with Opera Orlando, and last season she made her Opera Orlando debut as Adele in Die Fledermaus. Her performances have received rave reviews in the press, including Voix des Arts, Musical America, Orlando Sentinel, and more.
To better serve the South Florida community and to meet the increasing audience demand, this season Symphony of the Americas has scheduled additional performances. Also this season, Pablo Mielgo has introduced two series of performances – Symphony Classics and Symphony Pops.
Two performances will be presented, one on Monday, December 4 and the other on Tuesday, December 5, at 7:45 p.m. at Broward Center for the Performing Arts in the Amaturo Theater, located at 201 SW 5th Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312.
