Review/Notes
Format: Audio
Quality:
Length: 52:24 52:14
My notes:
notes
Internet notes:
The Boston Pops
Esplanade Orchestra
with
The Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Gerald Steichen conducting
live at Symphony Hall
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
December 13, 2008
FM radio broadcast
Program: "Holiday Pops"
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Some recent stock photos of the Pops at Symphony Hall are included in the torrent (not from this show).
More info:
http:/www.bostonpops.com
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Source/lineage:
FM stereo radio>PC>Soundforge>WAVs>HD>tracked and edited in Soundforge>SBEs repaired, FLAC-8 files and checksum files created in Trader's Little Helper
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A Zootype project December 2008
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Additional Information
Audio Source: FM Broadcast
Obtained From: torrent (unknown tracker probably traders den)
Recording Title: Holiday Pops
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Setlist
CD 1
Part 1
100 radio intro 4:04
101 Joy to the World 4:29 [Isaac Watts; 1719 - arranged by Randall Bass]
102 Hallelujah Chorus 3:40 [G. F. Handel, from "Messiah"; 1741]
103 Gerald Steichen's greeting 1:36
104 It Came Upon a Midnight Clear 4:11 [Edmund H. Sears; 1849]
105 Go Tell It on the Mountain 3:28 [John W. Work; 1865]
106 Waltz of the Flowers 6:43 [Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky, from "The Nutcracker"; 1891-92]
107 intro to The Polar Express 2:00
108 The Polar Express 20:55 [Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard; 2004 - Newly arranged by David Chase for Narrator, Chorus and Orchestra]
Narrator: Will LeBow
Text by Chris van Allsburg
(world broadcast premiere of the new arrangement)
109 radio outro 1:12
CD 1 total time: 52:24
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intermission
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CD 2
Part 2
200 radio intro 3:35
Suite from "Home Alone" [John Williams; 1990]
- 201 Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas 2:32
- 202 Holiday Flight 1:25
- 203 Somewhere in My Memory 3:52
204 Gerald Steichen intro 1:05
205 Sleigh Ride 3:07 [Leroy Anderson; 1948]
206 Gerald Steichen intro 0:18
207 Kije Takes a Ride 3:17 [Serge Prokofiev, from the Troika (4th movement) of the "Lt. Kije Suite"; 1933]
208 Gerald Steichen intro 1:43
209 The Twelve Days of Christmas - Medley 9:51 [Traditional; arranged by David Chase]
210 Santa Claus Medley 5:16
- Hello, Mr. Kringle [Kay Kyser(?); 1939]
- Santa Baby [Joan Javits, Philip Springer and Tony Springer; 1953]
- Santa Claus is Coming to Town [J. Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie; 1934]
211 Santa Claus appears on the stage 2:30
212 Audience sing-along 8:08
Medley:
- Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer [Robert May and Johnny Marks; 1949(?)]
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas [Hugh Martin; 1944(?)]
- Let It Snow [Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn; 1944]
- The Christmas Song [Mel Torme and Bob Wells; 1944]
- Winter Wonderland [Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith; 1934]
- Jingle Bells [James Lord Pierpont; 1857]
213 encore break 1:09
214 Let There Be Peace On Earth 3:26 [Jill Jackson Miller and Sy Miller; 1955]
215 radio outro 0:50
CD2 total time: 52:14