Des Moines Symphony Live from the Temple: Winter Fantasia
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Giuseppe Torelli — Concerti grossi con una pastorale per il Santissimo Natale Op. 8 No. 6
Michael Torke — December
Johann Sebastian Bach — "Jesus bleibet meine Freude" ("Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring") from Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147
Edward Elgar — Salut d'Amour, Op. 12
Ralph Vaughan Williams — Fantasia on Greensleeves
William Boyce – Symphony No. 5 in D major
Giuseppe Torelli – Concerti grossi con una pastorale per il Santissimo Natale, Op. 8 No. 6
Michael Torke – December
Edward Elgar – Salut d'Amour ("Love's Greeting"), Op. 12
Johann Sebastian Bach – "Jesus bleibet meine Freude" ("Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring") from Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben ("Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life"), BWV 147
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on Greensleeves
Celebrate the holiday season with the Des Moines Symphony! From Bach to Boyce, this festive evening of music will inspire warmth, joy and peace.
Boyce’s charming Symphony No. 5 was dedicated to St. Cecilia, patron saint of music whose feast day, November 22, begins the holiday season in countries around the world – and so begins our seasonally inspired evening of music. Torelli’s calm, peaceful “Holy Nativity” Concerto recalls the shepherds of Bethlehem watching flocks by night, while Michael Torke’s December, originally commissioned by the Des Moines Symphony in 1995, conjures childhood memories of the first snowfall. Elgar composed the beguiling Salut d'Amour ("Love's Greeting") for his future wife Caroline Alice Roberts, and played it for her every Christmas morning until his death. The concert concludes with Bach's endearing "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" and Vaughan Williams’s peaceful and serene Fantasia on Greensleeves.
The broadcast will take place at 7pm Central / 5pm Pacific.
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