Singer

This year, too, the Sicilian Symphony Orchestra will celebrate Christmas with its audience through a special event. The program offers a fascinating and rich musical journey through the universal soundtrack of this important Christian holiday. The concert opens with Leroy Anderson's rousing " Sleigh Ride" (1946), renowned for his descriptive use of percussion, evoking the sound of horses trotting and the cracking of whips on the snow. Later, the same composer will perform " A Christmas Festival ," a rhapsodic overture that interweaves the most famous traditional carols. A profound sense of intimacy and nostalgia emanates from the pieces created during the dramatic years of the Second World War. This is the case of White Christmas , composed by Irving Berlin in 1940 and performed for the first time the following year during the program The Kraft Music Hall , and of I'll Be Home for Christmas  (1943) by Walter Kent, whose lyrics feature a soldier stationed abroad who writes to his family. This trend is joined by the poignant sweetness of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas  by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, originally introduced by Judy Garland in the famous musical film Meet Me in St. Louis  (1944).

Concerto Di Natale

Politeama Garibaldi - Palermo

Sleigh Ride

Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana

Hallelujah

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

White Christmas

Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

You Raise Me Up

Last Christmas

Soprano

Claire Coolen

Events

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Dec 18, 2026

Concerto Di Natale · Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana

Future and recently performed repertoire

Singer in Sleigh Ride by Anderson

Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana

Singer in Hallelujah by Cohen

Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana

Singer in Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas by Martin

Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana

Singer in White Christmas by Berlin

Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana

Singer in Santa Claus Is Coming to Town by Coots

Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana

Singer in It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas by Willson

Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana

Singer in You Raise Me Up by Løvland

Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana

Singer in Last Christmas by Michael

Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana

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