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.