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VSO brings Christmas concert to Burnaby

It’s a Christmas tradition for music lovers, and it’s coming back to Burnaby again this year. The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is once again travelling around the Lower Mainland for its Traditional Christmas concert, with shows running from Dec.

It’s a Christmas tradition for music lovers, and it’s coming back to Burnaby again this year.

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is once again travelling around the Lower Mainland for its Traditional Christmas concert, with shows running from Dec. 8 to 18 at a variety of venues.

Burnaby audiences can catch the orchestra and its special guests on Sunday, Dec. 18 at the Michael J. Fox Theatre, where there will be shows at 4 p.m. and at 7:30 p.m.

William Rowson, assistant conductor of the VSO, will direct the orchestra for the occasion.

Christopher Gaze – of Bard on the Beach fame – joins the concert as host, while EnChor and the UBC Opera Ensemble bring their vocal talents to the stage for the program.

Concertgoers will enjoy a program full of familiar Christmas music, both orchestral and vocal.

Among the selections will be Leroy Anderson’s Christmas Festival and Sleigh Ride, John Rutter’s What Sweeter Music, and Adolphe Adam’s O Holy Night.

Classical music lovers will be treated to Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Waltz, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Christmas Eve: Polonaise and Schubert’s Ave Maria.

And audience members will have a chance to sing along with such favourites as Deck the Halls, O Come All Ye Faithful and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.

If you miss the Burnaby date, other shows are being performed at St. Andrew’s Wesley Church in Vancouver, South Delta Baptist Church, the Bell Performing Arts Centre in Surrey, Centennial Theatre in North Vancouver and the Kay Meek Centre in West Vancouver.

Tickets are $43, or $37 for students, seniors and children. Call 604-867-3434 or see www.vancouversymphony.ca for more information.