Holiday Pops 2022 Kids' Matinees
Sponsored by
Program
- Saturday, December 3, at 3pm
- Saturday, December 10, at 11am
- Sunday, December 11, at 11am
- Saturday, December 17, at 11am
- Sunday, December 18, at 11am
- Saturday, December 24, at 11am
KEITH LOCKHART conducting
with the Holiday Singers, Lisa Graham, director
HOLIDAY POPS SEASON SPONSORED BY FIDELITY INVESTMENTS
Arbella Insurance Foundation is the official sponsor of Kids’ Matinees
Christmas Canticles
O’Loughlin
Sleigh Ride
Anderson/Parish-Goldberg/Burton
Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, from La Chauve-Souris
Jessel-Gould
Original animation by FableVision Studios
Dance of the Tumblers, from The Snow Maiden
Rimsky-Korsakov
Noche de Posadas (The Night of Las Posadas) (world premiere)
Rodríguez
Text and images by Tomie dePaola | Additional text by Arturo Rodríguez
Melinda Lopez, narrator (12/3 & 24)
Mariela Lopez-Ponce, narrator (12/10 & 11)
Karina Beleno Carney, narrator (12/17 & 18)
Drey Dreydeleh
Ellstein/Oysher-Jacobson/Hollenbeck
Gesu bambino
Yon-Morley/Elliott
Christmas Is a-Comin’
Luther-Reisman/Elliott
Frosty All the Way!
arr. Sebesky
’Twas the Night Before Christmas
Darby-Simeone
Christmas Is for Children Sing-Along
arr. Troob
- Jingle Bells
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Chipmunk Song
- A Holly Jolly Christmas
- Deck the Hall
- Frosty the Snowman
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Photo and video of these performances are allowed for personal use only, including posting on social media; we may ask you to refrain from taking photos or videos if it interferes with the performance or other attendees’ enjoyment of it.
The Boston Pops welcomes:
- 12/3 at 3pm: Ms. Lin Ma, Harvard Outings & Innings, MIT Activities Committee, Ms. Katherine McCabe, Mr. Eugene F. Thayer
- 12/10 at 11am: Mr. Joseph J. Basile, Jr., Allan and Rebecca Callow Household, InterSystems Corporation
- 12/17 at 11am: InterSystems, Mary Lawler Household, Ms. Ann Marie Manning, Dimitra Murphy
- 12/18 at 11am: Ms. Kathleen Curley, Mr. Thomas F. Fay III, Hadley Scully Design, Ms. Nancy Herter
- 12/24 at 11am: Kate Daniels, Charles and Nancy Donahue Household, Chris Hinckley, Mr. Edward O’Brien, Peter and Catherine Smyth Household
Program Notes
Artists
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Keith Lockhart
Keith Lockhart is the second longest-tenured conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra since its founding in 1885. He took over as conductor in 1995, following John Williams’s thirteen-year tenure from 1980 to 1993. Keith Lockhart, who occupies the Julian and Eunice Cohen Boston Pops Conductor chair, has conducted more than 2,000 Boston Pops concerts and annual Boston Pops appearances at Tanglewood, as well as 45 national tours and four international tours to Japan and Korea. The annual Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular conducted by Mr. Lockhart draws a live audience of over half a million to the Charles River Esplanade and millions more who view it on television or live webcast. He has led eight albums on RCA Victor/BMG Classics; recent releases on Boston Pops Recordings include A Boston Pops Christmas–Live from Symphony Hall, The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers, and Lights, Camera…Music! Six Decades of John Williams. The list of nearly 300 guest artists with whom Keith Lockhart has collaborated represents performers from virtually every corner of the entertainment world. Following his eight-year tenure as principal conductor, he is now chief guest conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra in London; he is also artistic director of the Brevard Music Center summer institute and festival in North Carolina. Prior to his BBC appointment, he spent eleven years as music director of the Utah Symphony. He has appeared as a guest conductor with virtually every major symphonic ensemble in North America and many in Asia and Europe. Before coming to Boston, he was the associate conductor of both the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Pops orchestras, as well as music director of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra.
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Melinda Lopez
Melinda Lopez is an award-winning playwright and performer and is the recipient of the 2019 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre, recognizing her 20-year career. Her plays include Mala (at Arts Emerson, Guthrie Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, on PBS, and on Audible in both Spanish and English), Yerma (adaptation, Huntington Theatre), Back the Night, Becoming Cuba, Orchids to Octopi, and Sonia Flew (Huntington Theatre, Steppenwolf, National Theatre Festival of Cuba, and more), and Black Beans Project, her digital play (via Zoom), which won the Elliot Norton Award for Best New Play. Melinda also performs on stage, including Our Town at Huntington Theatre, and in film—she’s that fan in Fever Pitch. Melinda was mentioned by President Obama in his speech to the Cuban and American people in 2016, and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh declared October 29, 2016, “Melinda Lopez Day in the City of Boston.” Melinda is currently artist-in-residence at the Huntington Theatre Company and a professor at Northeastern University.
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Mariela Lopez-Ponce
Mariela Lopez-Ponce is absolutely honored and thrilled to take part in this Holiday Pops season. Mariela is a founding member of Teatro Chelsea and has directed and performed with various theater groups in the Boston area and in her hometown of Miami. She is a member of Actors’ Equity. She recently directed the Teatro Chelsea/Apollinaire Theater co-production Don't Eat the Mangos. Other recent credits include playing Magdalena/Perla in Quixote Nuevo (Hartford Stage/Huntington Theatre/Alley Theatre touring production); Sonia/Pilar in Sonia Flew (Wellesley Repertory), Eleanor in The Lion in Winter (Lexington Players); with Apollinaire Theater, the role of Gertrude in Hamlet, Cheesecake in A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes, which won an Elliot Norton Award, and Mother in Blood Wedding; and with Lyric Stage Boston, Haikumom in Water by the Spoonful and Ana in Living Out (IRNE Award for Best Actress).
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Karina Beleno Carney
Karina Beleno Carney (she/ella) is delighted to join the Holiday Pops family this year! A Massachusetts-based actor, Karina has appeared this year in Central Square Theater's Young Nerds of Color, Apollinaire Theater's Don't Eat the Mangos, and Huntington Theatre’s Breaking Ground Festival of New Work in Rough Magic. A first-generation Colombian American and mother of three, Karina is thrilled to bring the Latine children’s book The Night of Las Posadas to life with the Boston Pops. As always, she is eminently grateful to Elena, Felicidad, Esben, and Sebastián for their support and encouragement.
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Boston Pops Holiday Singers
The Boston Pops Holiday Singers, which made its debut in the 2021 Holiday Pops season, is made up of accomplished vocalists with Boston connections: Corrine Byrne, Zipporah Peddle, Carrie Cheron, Sonja DuToit Tengblad (12/13 & 14), Renese King, Fausto Miro, Brandon Grimes, Eduardo Ramos, James Dargan, Nathan Halbur, and Chris Weigel (12/14). They perform in all of the 2025 Kids’ Matinees as well as the Sensory-Friendly Concert. The singers were prepared by David Hodgkins, artistic director of Coro Allegro in Boston and the New England Classical Singers in Andover.
Tap or click this brief bio to read individual bios of the Boston Pops Holiday Singers.
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Lisa Graham
Lisa Graham is music director of the Metropolitan Chorale, a position she has held since 2004. Dr. Graham has shaped the Chorale’s programming to include contemporary, American, and lesser-known works alongside the masterworks of the repertory. She has enhanced the reputation and reach of the Chorale through collaborations with acclaimed artists as well as established composers of our day.
Dr. Graham is the Evelyn Barry Director of Choral Programs and Senior Lecturer at Wellesley College, where she conducts the Wellesley College Choir, Chamber Singers, and Choral Scholars in addition to teaching academic courses in the music department. Under her direction, the Wellesley College Choirs have toured internationally in Canada, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Portugal, South Korea, and the Baltics in addition to annual domestic tours. Both the Chamber Singers and the Choir are featured in the motion picture Mona Lisa Smile.
Familiar to Boston audiences, she has worked with the Handel and Haydn Society and the BSO, and she has toured with and served as cover conductor for the Boston Pops for eight seasons. In 2016, she prepared members of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus for Charles Dutoit's BSO performance of Holst’s The Planets.
Dr. Graham is a founding member, former president, and lifetime honorary member of the National Collegiate Choral Conductor’s Organization. She has served on the board of the Eastern Division American Choral Directors Association and is currently president of the Massachusetts chapter. Dr. Graham is the 2021 winner of the American Prize Dale Warland Award in Choral Conducting. Her masters and doctoral degrees were earned at the University of Southern California.
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The Boston Pops and Symphony Hall major corporate sponsorships reflect the increasing importance of alliance between business and the arts. The Boston Pops is honored to be associated with the following companies and gratefully acknowledges their partnership. For information regarding BSO, Boston Pops, and/or Tanglewood sponsorship opportunities, contact Joan Jolley, Director of Corporate Partnerships, at (617) 638-9279 or jjolley@bso.org.
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