HOLIDAY BRASS
December 23, 2021
Overview
The popular Holiday Brass concert is back! Feel the power and precision of the SF Symphony brass section as they fill Davies Symphony Hall with a festive mix of classical and popular holiday favorites.
Program
George Frideric
Handel
Music for the Royal Fireworks
Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart
Serenade No. 10 in B-flat major, K.361, Gran Partita
Sergei
Rachmaninoff (arr. Roger Schmidt)
"Praise the lord, O my soul" from Vespers
Sergei
Rachmaninoff (arr. Roger Schmidt)
"Rejoice, O Virgin" from Vespers
Tylman
Susato
Dance Suite
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
(arr. Timothy Higgins)
Selections from The Nutcracker Suite
Ralph Vaughan Williams
(arr. Timothy Higgins)
Fantasia on Greensleeves
Victor
Herbert
March of the Toys
Traditional
Festival of Lights
Leopold Mozart
(arr. Timothy Higgins)
Musical Sleigh Ride
Sergei Prokofiev
(arr. Timothy Higgins)
Troika from Lieutenant Kijé Suite
Leroy
Anderson
Sleigh Ride
Edwin Outwater
Conductor
Edwin Outwater regularly works with the world’s top orchestras, institutions, and artists to reinvent the concert experience. His ability to cross genres has led to collaborations with Metallica, Wynton Marsalis, Renée Fleming, and Yo-Yo Ma. He is music director of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and music director laureate of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.
Recent appearances include the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Seattle Symphony, and the New World Symphony, as well as the Royal Philharmonic. He also served as a producer and musical advisor for the National Symphony Orchestra’s 50th Anniversary Concert at the Kennedy Center. In December 2022, he premiered A Christmas Gaiety at the Royal Albert Hall with Peaches Christ and the BBC Concert Orchestra, and returned in 2023.
Outwater has held a long association with San Francisco Symphony. He was appointed Resident Conductor and Wattis Foundation Music Director of the SF Symphony Youth Orchestra by Michael Tilson Thomas in 2001 and they have been friends and colleagues since.
Recent appearances include the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Seattle Symphony, and the New World Symphony, as well as the Royal Philharmonic. He also served as a producer and musical advisor for the National Symphony Orchestra’s 50th Anniversary Concert at the Kennedy Center. In December 2022, he premiered A Christmas Gaiety at the Royal Albert Hall with Peaches Christ and the BBC Concert Orchestra, and returned in 2023.
Outwater has held a long association with San Francisco Symphony. He was appointed Resident Conductor and Wattis Foundation Music Director of the SF Symphony Youth Orchestra by Michael Tilson Thomas in 2001 and they have been friends and colleagues since.
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