Category: Holidays Around the World
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Holidays Around the World — SPRING FESTIVAL (Chinese New Year)! Spring Festival Overture, Li Huanzhi (1956)
Performance: Suzhou Symphony Orchestra Li Huanzhi’s Spring Festival Suite, written for orchestra from 1955-1956, depicts scenes of people in the…
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Holidays Around the World — CHRISTMAS! Christmas Overture, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1925)
Performance: BBC Concert Orchestra This Edwardian-era work by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a British composer, weaves together multiple well-known carols such as…
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Holidays Around the World — CHRISTMAS! Das Jahr: December, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1841)
Performance: Sharon Prushansky, fortepiano, Basel 2020 Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel’s Das Jahr, or The Year, is a series of 12 pieces for…
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Holidays Around the World — KWANZAA! Umoja, Anthem of Unity; Valerie Coleman (2019)
Performance: Minnesota Orchestra Information on Umoja: “Umoja by Valerie Coleman was commissioned by The Philadelphia Orchestra and was premiered in…