Please mark your calendars for a free, one-of-a-kind Holiday Pops concert:
Sunday, December 20 at 4 p.m.Holiday Pops: Festive Stories for the Whole FamilyA special live streamMusic Director Cynthia Woods leads the CSO in a live-streamed event featuring:• Dancers from City Ballet of Boston—with choreography from their resident choreographer, Gianni Gino Di Marco—for a special, mini version of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker• The UMass Lowell choir department (Jonathan Richter, director) for a performance of “Children Will Listen” from Into the Woods• A visit from Santa• A celebration of Hanukkah…and more!The Spotlight Partner for this event is the Boston String Academy, which provides rigorous string instrument instruction to children in under-served communities and is based on the Venezuelan El Sistema philosophy that utilizes music as a vehicle for social change.Thanks go to the City of Cambridge for its generous patronage of this project, and to the Massachusetts Cultural Council for its continued support.The YouTube Live is embedded here:cambridgesymphony.org/HolidayPops2020Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/361726078467477/
