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CONCERT: "Holiday Cheer" - Lehman College and Community Band

BRONX, NY The Lehman College & Community Band celebrates the season with Holiday Cheer! a concert featuring a mix of holiday selections and classics for wind band. This event, which is open to the public, will take place on Sunday, December 18, at 2 p.m. in the Lovinger Theatre.

Led by Professor Alan Hollander of the Music Program, the ensemble will perform a wide range of works, including perennial holiday favorites Christmas Festival and Sleigh Ride by Leroy Anderson, another sleigh ride, Troika from the Lieutenant Kije Suite by Sergei Prokofiev, and a medley of traditional Hanukah tunes entitled Festive Sounds of Hanukah.

Also featured will be a slice of Americana: Norman Rockwell Suite by Hayato Hirose inspired by three of Rockwells famous paintings, the timeless Greensleeves arranged by prolific American composer Alfred Reed, and Variations on a Theme of Paganini by James Barnes, a tour de force for the ensemble, which features every section of the band.

Rounding out the program will be a humorous medley by David Lovrien entitled Minor Alterations: Christmas Through the Looking Glass, a game of musical hide-and-seek for the audience, in which familiar Christmas carols are transposed from major to minor keys then disguised and layered to create something new and innovative.

A senior college of the City University of New York, Lehman is located at Goulden Avenue and Bedford Park Boulevard in the northwest Bronx and is accessible by bus as well as the #4 and D subway lines. Attended parking is available for a modest fee.

COVID-19 protocol: To enter the Lehman campus, all persons must show photo ID and either proof of vaccination, or a negative PCR test no more than 7 days old.

For more information, please contact the Department of Music, Multimedia, Theatre, and Dance at 718-960-8247, email music@lehman.cuny.edu, or visit lehman.edu/music.