SSO Christmas Fundraising Concert 2020

Synopsis

UPDATE: For Tues, 15th Dec: Pre-Event Testing (PET) no longer required. Audience capacity reduced to 250.

For Weds, 16th Dec: Mandatory PET for attendees. In supporting Singapore’s efforts to allow resumption of large-scale events with a live audience, PET remains in place for this concert with an audience capacity of 400. We seek your understanding and greatly appreciate your support in this trial – you play a vital part in the nation’s progress to allow more live events safely.

Ticket holders can download the list of clinics here, and present this letter to the staff on duty. An FAQ for this concert can also be found here.

Welcome music into your lives again, live at the Esplanade Concert Hall! Join us in heralding the holiday season through musical peace and joy. Reinvigorate the air with Baroque Christmas concertos and traditional carols, including a new arrangement by Singapore composer Avik Chari. The SSO Christmas Fundraising Concert is a necessary first for us - help us keep music alive, help us deck the halls with melodies again.

All ticket proceeds are counted as donations to Singapore Symphonia Company Limited.

FORMAT: This will be a live concert held at the Esplanade Concert Hall.

Featuring

SSO Strings / Joshua Tan, Associate Conductor / Kong Zhao Hui, violin^

Programme

Charpentier	Noëls pour les Instruments (“Carol for Instruments”)
Manfredini	Christmas Concerto
Vivaldi	Winter from The Four Seasons^
Traditional	Carol of the Bells/God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen^ (arr. M. Riley)
J.S. Bach	Aria (Air on the G String, arr. Stokowski)
Vaughan Williams	Fantasia on Greensleeves
Bridge	A Christmas Dance “Sir Roger de Coverley”
Traditional	Dawn (arr. A. Chari)

Duration: 1 hr (with no intermission)