The Philly POPS Presents 'Christmas Spectacular' For 2015 Season
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The Philly POPS presents their annual Christmas Spectacular for the 2015 season.
Acclaimed conductor David Charles Abell leads the 65-piece POPS orchestra and three full choirs -- for a total of 300 musicians on stage -- in the Christmas Spectacular concerts.
Guest vocalist and Broadway veteran Lisa Vroman, the Emmy-winning Philadelphia Boys Choir and Grammy-nominated African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas Gospel Choir, the POPS Festival Chorus, and organist Peter Richard Conte will join the POPS on stage through an all-new program featuring holiday favorites like Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and Hallelujah.
"It's a holiday experience you simply can't have anywhere else," says Abell. "I always make sure that the program has something for everyone: grand symphonic arrangements of Christmas carols, popular holiday songs, and Christmas music done in swing style, Chanukah favorites, rousing Gospel numbers, and the ever-popular audience singalong."
Abell added: "The Kimmel Center is a warm, inviting place to hear concerts, but it also has a sense of grandeur. Verizon Hall is dressed up beautifully in holiday finery, and the staged is completely filled with musicians. If you add to that Broadway star Lisa Vroman, Peter Richard Conte on the pipe organ, and a certain guy in a red suit, you've got a true Christmas Spectacular!"
Pre-concert entertainment includes Mr. and Mrs. Claus, carolers, and local school ensembles.
The show runs from December 4 through December 22.
For more information and tickets, visit: http://phillypops.org/concerts-events/2015-16-season/christmas-spectacular
