Sold out | Delight in the twinkling lights, seasonal greenery and beautiful music at CU Boulder’s Holiday Festival, an annual tradition that’s enchanting for all ages. The decades-old celebration brings together student choirs, bands and orchestras—along with world-class faculty performers—for a concert of holiday favorites and new surprises.

Performance dates and times: Friday, Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 8, 1 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 8, 4 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 9, 4 p.m.

Program: Franz Xaver Gruber: "Stille Nacht"; Arr. R. Vaughan Williams: "Gloucestershire Wassail"; Gustav Hoist: "In the Bleak Midwinter"; Chrisophe Beck and Frode Fjellheim: "Vuelie from Disney's Frozen"; Ola Gjeilo: "Nothern Lights"; Arr. Michael Allen: "Ding, Dong Merrily on High"; Arr. John Leavitt: "Fantasy for Christmas"; Arr. David Hanson: "Carol of the Bells"; Leory Anderson: "Christmas Festival Overture"; Arr. John Leavitt: "Carol Sing!"; Charles Ives: "A Christmas Carol"; Pyotr Llyich Tchaikovsky: "Two Dances from the Nutcracker"; Traditional arr. Brad Goode: "Chanukah, Oh Chanukah"; John Rutter: "What Sweeter Music"; André J. Thomas: "Rockin' Jerusalem"; Adolphe Adam arr. Arthur Luck: "Cantique de Noēl"; Arr. Michael Allen: "March of the Toys"; Donald Fraser: "This Christmastide"; Leroy Anderson: "Sleigh Ride"; Bob Wells and Mel Torme: "The Christmas Song"; Arr. Mervyn Warren adapt. Roger Emerson: "Joyful, Joyful"; Elizabeth Poston: "Jesus Christ the Apple Tree"; Via Olatunji and Wendall Whalum arr. Barrington Brooks: "Betelehemu"; George Frederic Handel: "Hallelujah from Messiah"; Arr. Andrew Kazdin ed. Michael Allen: "The Twelve Days of Christmas"

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