Alex will star on this one
Thursday 1 December, 8pm
National Concert Hall
Following the hugely successful Movie Classics concert earlier this year, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra return with another feast of film favourites with a Christmas flavour.
Bask in the glorious themes by some of greatest film composers of our time, from such classic scores as It's a Wonderful Life, The Wizard of Oz and The Sound of Music.
RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Liz Nolan RTÉ lyric fm, presenter
Cormac Kenevey & Alex Sharpe, vocalists
Guinness Choir
Gavin Sutherland, conductor
Programme includes:
The Holly And The Ivy Malcolm Arnold
Babes in Toyland: March of the Toys Herbert, Victor (1859-1924)
Carol Of The Bells (Home Alone) Williams, John
The Nutcracker Excerpts (Fantasia) Tchaikovsky
White Christmas
Three Holiday Songs (Home Alone includes Choir) Williams, John
A Christmas Carol Suite (1938) Waxman, Franz
Symphony No. 3 Mvt. 3 (Babe) Saint-saens
Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow (Elf)
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Meet Me In St. Louis)
It's a Wonderful Life Dimitri Tiomkin
The Sound Of Music
Somewhere over the Rainbow
Ghostbusters Elmer Bernstein
http://www.rte.ie/performinggroups/2011/1201/comovieclasschristmas.html