his beautiful Christmas concert features a diverse and delicious collection of international carols and holiday songs with unique and stirring arrangements Tony Sandler has gathered since childhood.

 

     In Come Spend Christmas With Me, the charismatic Tony Sandler brings audiences the full quality and experience of his celebrated career.

Tony's warm musical interpretations, combined with his characteristic wit and charming show style, present a heartfelt celebration of the beauty, fellowship, and peace this season represents. For years, many have made Tony's holiday performances a family tradition.

2007 PROGRAM

SNOW SCENE
mus. Joe Cribari / lyr. Tony Sandler, Ralph Young

DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR
mus./lyr. Noel Regney, Gloria Shayne

WHAT CHILD IS THIS
mus. 16th Century English trad. / lyr. William Chatterton Dix

THE HOLLY & THE IVY
Traditional French Carol

MY FAVORITE THINGS
mus. Richard Rogers / lyr. Oscar Hammerstein

HEILIGE NACHT
mus. Johann Friedrich Reichardt / lyr. German, unknown

Looking for a Sunset Bird In Winter
poem by Robert Frost (underscore: Arcangelo Corelli)

LEISE RIESELT DER SCHNEE
mus./lyr. Eduard Ebel

DECK THE HALLS
mus. Welsh folk melody / lyr. English unknown

SUDDENLY IT'S CHRISTMAS
mus. Burton Lane / lyr. Ervin Drake

Medley of Traditional European Carols:
DORMI (Italian)
SCHLAFE, MEIN PRINZCHEN (Austrian)
HAJEJ, NYNEJ, JEZISKU (Czechoslovakian)
DA DROBEN VOM BERGE (Tyrolean)
ER IS EEN KINDEKEN (Flemish)
NOEL NOUVELET (French)

PANIS ANGELICUS
Latin prayer set to music by Caesar Frank

SANCTUS
from Requiem Op.5, Hector Berlioz

ADESTE FIDELES
Latin Hymn: 18th Century, Eng. Trans Frederick Oakely

- INTERMISSION -

HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS
mus./lyr. Hugh Martin

Christmas Medley:
SLEIGH RIDE (m. LeRoy Anderson / lyr. Mitchell Parish)
WINTER WONDERLAND (mus. Felix Bernard / lyr. Richard B. Smith)
LET IT SNOW (mus. Jule Styne / lyr. Sammy Cahn)

LA FIESTA DE LA POSADA
mus. Dave Brubeck / lyr. Iola Brubeck

JINGLE BELLS
mus./lyr. James Pierpoint / Fr. lyr. and Arr. Tony Sandler

ES IST EIN ROS ENTSPRUNGEN
mus./lyr. Michael Praetorius

IL EST NE' LE DIVIN ENFANT
Traditional French Carol

SUSA NINA / SILENT NIGHT
mus. Armand Preud'homme / lyr. Jozef Simons
mus. Franz Xaver Gruber / lyr. Austrian poet Joseph Mohr
Arr. Tony Sandler

O HOLY NIGHT
mus. Adolphe Charles Adam / Fr.lyr. Cappeau de Roquemaure,
Eng. trans. John Sullivan Dwight / Arr. Tony Sandler

GESÜ BAMBINO
mus./It.lyr. Pietro Allensandro Yon / Eng. trans. Frederick H. Martens

I SING NOEL (COME SPEND CHRISTMAS WITH ME)
mus./lyr. Noel Regney, Gloria Shayne

Tony has produced this show for both symphony orchestra and small ensemble, giving venues a choice, and he enjoys singing this concert with boys' choirs. As a young boy in Belgium, Tony had a clear soprano voice, a good ear, and a quick mind for learning music, and he easily rose to the top as a soloist with the boys' choir at his school. The boys were trained in Gregorian chant, and sang daily for morning matins and evening vespers at the college chapel. Tony subsequently toured with an international choir, the preeminent Gregorian Choir, Les Petits Chanteurs a la Croix de Bois. These experiences left a fondness in his heart for that crystalline sonority that distinguishes their music.

The 2007 Christmas Concert Series is being performed with the international award winning Land of Lakes Choirboys from Minnesota, under the musical direction of the Austrian-trained New Zealander, Francis Stockwell. Winner of the 2004 International Trebby Award for "Best Boys" Choir Album" with its CD "Steal Away," the Land of Lakes Choirboys has stunned audiences all over the world with its superb singing. The Land of Lakes Choirboys is the only boys' choir outside of Germany to have received the honor of opening the International Bach Festival in Ratingen, Germany (June 1999) with a full concert, and asserted its position as one of the finest boys' choirs in the world. Perhaps the most talked-about aspects of this choir are its pure and hauntingly beautiful sound, its power and flawless intonation. Founded by Craig Carmody Anderson since 1976, the Land of Lakes Choirboys is a nonprofit boy choir organization comprised of six individual choir ensembles. Choristers are taught arts of music, leadership, respect, honor and other elements of human integrity.

 

NOTE TO PRESENTERS: 90-minute concert with intermission. Concert may be performed with a small ensemble (piano, bass, percussion; guitar, harp optional), or with orchestra (scores shipped in advance if performed with orchestra). Boy's choir optional but preferred for larger venues. Tony can either tour with a boys' choir or perform with a qualified area boy's choir. Requirements depend on production size: Grand piano, quality sound and lights. Now booking for next season.

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