Music Performed


December 2nd, 2007




  • Winter Wonderland
    By Dick Smith (lyrics) and Felix Bernard (music)
    Arranged by John Warrington
    Copyright 1934
    In 2007, ASCAP confirmed this song as the most played holiday song over the past 5 years.
  • Russian Folk Dances (Ukraine)
    By Dan Rager
    Copyright 2005
    Medley of Ukrainian dances. Starts with a slow, deliberate Cossak-style dance. Goes through a series of ever quickening tunes.
  • Fanfare & Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
    By Chip Davis
    Adapted by Robert Longfield
    Copyright 1988
    This song has lots of syncopated rhythms and quick rhythmic figures that Mannheim Steamroller is known for.
  • Joy To The World
    Arranged by John Tatgenhorst
    Copyright 1984
    John Tatgenhorst is a prolific composer of TV and film music. He has worked with such greats as John Williams and Erich Kunzel.
  • Sleigh Ride
    By Leroy Anderson
    Copyright 1948
    The Christmas classic was composed during a July heat wave while Anderson lived in Woodbury, Connecticut. Words were added by Mitchell Parish in 1950, who also added words to six other Anderson works after they became popular.
  • Festive Sounds of Hanukah
    Arranged by Bill Holcombe
    Copyright 1985
    Written for the 1963 movie. In 1964, it reached the Top 10 on the Billboard adult contemporary chart and won three Grammy Awards.
  • Holiday Emblem
    By Edwin Eugene Bagley
    Arranged by Robert W. Smith
    National Emblem march was written in 1911 by E.E. Baley. Here Robert W. Smith puts a holiday spin on the same song.
  • A Christmas Festival
    By Leroy Anderson
    This is an extended medley of Christmas favorites.

  • O Holy Night
    By Adolphe Charles Adam
    Arranged by Calvin Custer
    Copyright 1994
    Adolphe Adam was a French composer for mostly theater in the first half of the 19th century. O Holy Night is rumored to have been the first song played on radio.