Tecumseh Christmas Concert

A Tecumseh tradition returns!

Celebrate the season with the Windsor Symphony String Orchestra in a concert featuring Holiday favourites.

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Tickets $10-$25

Sunday, December 6, 2009 at & 7:30 p.m.
St. Anne's Church, Tecumseh

 

Peter Wiebe, Conductor
Brandon Leis, Tenor

J. Stamitz - Symphony in A, “Mannheim”
Presto

Giuseppe Torelli - Christmas Concerto
Grave, Vivace
Largo
Vivace

Pyotr Tchaikovsky (arr. Wiebe) -“Christmas” from The Seasons

George Frideric Handel “Comfort Ye” and “Ev’ry Valley” from Messiah

Jules Massenet (arr. Naughtin) “Méditation” from Thaïs

Arr. Naughtin - Christmas Medley:
Silver Bells, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Let it Snow, White Christmas

Rutter - Suite
A-Roving
I Have a Bonnet Trimmed with Blue
O, Waly Waly
Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron

Adolphe Adam (arr. Naughtin)- O Holy Night

Thiele / Weiss - What a Wonderful World

Arr. Wiebe - Joy to the World

Arr. Luck - We Wish You A Merry Christmas

Brandon Leis

Tenor Brandon Leis performs regularly in southwestern Ontario and Michigan as an opera, oratorio and concert soloist. He has, most recently, been a featured soloist with the Stratford Summer Music festival in Bach’s Coffee Cantata, the K-W Symphony and the Mennonite Mass choir in Handel’s Messiah, Wilfrid Laurier University Choir in Orff’s Carmina Burana, the International Symphony Orchestra (Messiah, Mozart Requiem, Die Schoene Muellerin), and the University of Windsor Choir and Orchestra in Britten’s Saint Nicolas. As well, he recently recorded As Through a Glass Darkly, a song cycle by Heather Dawn Taves, on the disc Notes Towards, produced by Chestnut Hall.

Brandon is currently an adjunct professor of voice and music history at Heritage College in Cambridge, the Director of Music at Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church in Kitchener, and is an artist in residence and instructor at the Cantiamo Music Academy in Kitchener. ❧