What was on after the Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Rossini's The Barber of Seville.

 

Colorado Bach Ensemble
Music director James Kim talks about this tonight’s concerts. One of his soloists won an award at the Denver Lyric Opera Guild competition last year.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “Voi che sapete” from Act II of The Marriage of Figaro
   Megan Marino, mezzo-soprano
   Charles Koslowski, piano
   recorded 3/19/11

 

Colorado Symphony
Artistic advisor Andrew Litton talks about their production of Hansel and Gretel and their New Year’s Eve show. Too Hot to Handel will be performed again tonight.

George Frideric Handel (arr. Bob Christianson) Sinfonia from Too Hot to Handel
   Colorado Symphony
      Marin Alsop, conductor
   CO 005

 


What will be on tomorrow's Colorado Spotlight:

 

Christmas with the Colorado Children's Chorale 2012
Recorded earlier this month at Boettcher Concert Hall.

Taras Nahirniak: Hodie Christus
William Mathias: “Welcome Yule” from Salvator Mundi
Laurie Kahler (arr.): A Colonial Christmas
[Traditional Welsh: Gower Wassail
Traditional English: Coventry Carol
William Billings: Boston (Methinks I see)
William Billings: Judea (A Virgin Unspotted)
William Billings: Bethlehem (While Shepherds Watch)]
Alfred Burt: This Is Christmas
Robert Cohen: Christmas Eve
Traditional (arr. Andrea Ramsey): Up Above My Head
Jerry Herman (arr. Gary Fry): We Need a Little Christmas from Mame
Leslie Bricusse (arr. Gary Fry): Christmas Children from Scrooge
Mac Huff (arr.): Swing Into Christmas
Mykola Leontovych (arr. Kirby Shaw): Carol of the Bells
Traditional (arr. Jill Gallina): Hush, My Babe
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky/James Pierpont (arr. Chuck Bridwell): Nutcracker Jingles
Brahm Wenger/John M. Rosenberg (arr. Cristi Cary Miller): I Do Believe in Christmas
Cristi Cary Miller (arr.): Angels All Around
Johnny Marks (arr. Jill Gallina): Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree
Matthew Sklar: “Sparkeljollytwinklejingley” from Elf
Gary Fry: Things We Do Each Christmas
   Colorado Children's Chorale
      Deborah DeSantis, artistic director & conductor
      Mary Louise Burke, associate director & conductor
      Emily Crile, associate conductor
      Travis Branam, assistant conductor
      Tad Koriath, principal accompanist
      Janet Wright, Fernanda Nieto, accompanists
      Karen Kinzie, violin
      James Todd, cello
      Ron Bland, bass
      John Kinzie, percussion
   recorded 12/15-16/12 

Excerpts from Christmas with the Colorado Children's Chorale 2010

James H. Laster: Hodie Christus Natus Est
Philip Stopford: A Child Is Born in Bethlehem
Phillip Keveren (arr.): One King
Kurt Erickson: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
Mack Wilberg (arr.): Joy to the World
Andre Williams (arr.): Christmas Joy
Franz Gruber (arr. Duain Wolfe): Silent Night
Gary Fry (arr.): My Dancing Day, On Christmas Night
Lana Walter (arr.): Christmas Is Coming
   
Colorado Children's Chorale
      Deborah DeSantis, artistic director
      Mary Louise Burke, associate director
      Emily Crile, Travis Branam, assistant conductors
      Tad Koriath, piano, organ
      Janet Wright, piano
      Ron Bland, bass
      John Kinzie, percussion
   recorded 12/4-5/10

Colorado Children's Chorale