The Brockport Symphony Orchestra will welcome in the holiday season with its “8th Annual Holiday Pops Concert.” Directed by Jonathan Allentoff, this family concert will feature nationally-acclaimed vocalist Mary Wojciechowski, award-winning trumpet soloist Steve Hahn, and noted guest film professor, Sidney Rosenzweig on Saturday, December 2 at 4 p.m. The concert will be held in the historic sanctuary at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 14 State Street in the Village of Brockport. Admission and parking are free, and donations for the orchestra, with a portion for St. Luke’s, and canned items for the Brockport Ecumenical Food Shelf will be gratefully accepted at the door.
Wojciechowski, a graduate of Nazareth College and Temple University who has performed on tour across the Northeast, will perform Irving Berlin’s “Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep” from “White Christmas,” Jerry Herman’s “We Need a Little Christmas” from “Mame,” and a new setting of the Chanukah song, “I Have a Menorah,” written by local composers Terri Rosenhouse & Barbara Savage. She will also perform Allentoff’s arrangement of “It Comes Around the Same Time Each Year,” in memory of his wonderful ASMAC friend and Hollywood legend, Van Alexander.
Hahn, who has appeared on-stage at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall in London, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, will perform Vince Guaraldi’s “Christmas Time is Here” from “A Charlie Brown Christmas.”
Rosenzweig, author of “Casablanca and Other Major Films of Michael Curtiz” and lecturer of film at The College at Brockport, will give a special introduction to the 1900 silent movie, “The Christmas Dream,” directed by Georges Méliès. The orchestra will perform Allentoff’’s new score live as the film is showcased on screen.
The program also includes the theme from “Elf,” “Menuet” from J. S. Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 2, and the annual sing-along featuring “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”
There will be a complimentary holiday dessert reception in Parish Hall following the performance.
This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts at the Livingston Arts Center, a member supported organization. For additional information, visit www.brockportsymphony.org.
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