Athenaeum Holiday Concert

The Athenaeum Holiday Concert will feature the Portsmouth Symphony Brass Quintet (PBQ) at South Church, 292 State Street, Portsmouth. All are invited.

With trumpets, horns and trombones, PBQ will herald all that’s glorious about the season of Advent, Hanukkah, and Christmas. Come one, come all, to celebrate and be filled with a joyful mix of traditional music, seasonal favorites and music from the Renaissance to pop. The Concert is the Athenaeum’s gift to its membership and to the community at large, although contributions will be gratefully accepted at the door.

The Portsmouth Brass Quintet includes key brass players from the Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra:

• Adam Gallant and Greg Bechtold, trumpets
• Orlando Pandolfi, horn
• Brandon Newbould, trombone
• Chris Quade, tuba

Here’s the concert program for Thursday, December 12:

Three English Carols
• I Saw Three Ships arr. Keith Snell
• In the Bleak Mid-Winter by Christina Rossetti and Gustav Holst, arr. Tim Higgins
• Gloucestershire Wassail arr. Richard Price

Carol of the Drum by Katherine Kennicott Davis arr. Ray Wright, Adam Gallant, and Mary Barba

Hanukkah Trilogy arr. Chris Hajian and Ronald Romm
• Sevivon
• Maoz Tzur
• Dreydl

Las Posadas arr. Erroll W. Schlabach

Farandole by Georges Bizet, arr. Rolf Smedvig

~ Intermission ~

Selections from Home Alone and Home Alone 2
• Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas by Leslie Bricusse and John Williams, arr. Adam Gallant
• Somewhere in My Memory by John Williams, arr. Adam Gallant

Christmas Waltzes arranged by Angela Morley, arr. Justin Leach
• A Luther Henderson Christmas
• The Christmas Song
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
• Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

The FREE concert begins at 7:30 p.m. at the South Church, 292 State Street, Portsmouth, NH.