Holiday Pops

Holiday Pops is the best-selling program on The Florida Orchestra's calendar every year. This time Chelsea Gallo conducts, with baritone Alex Boyd and the orchestra's Holiday Choir. Leroy Anderson's A Christmas Festival and Sleigh Ride share the bill with Alan Silvestri's Polar Express suite, a Hanukkah medley, Silvino Jaramillo's Villancico Mexicano, Handel's Hallelujah chorus and Dmitri Tiomkin's music for It's a Wonderful Life. Dancers Madison Pineda Bender and Nicholas Garlo appear in a Hallmark Ballet sequence, and three bassoonists are featured in James Stephenson's Bassoon It Will Be Christmas. A Stephenson sing-along closes the program, and new, unwrapped toys brought by concertgoers go to Metropolitan Ministries.