A Celebration of Christmas

One of BYU's all-time favorite offerings, and first in BYU's acclaimed Celebration Series of television specials, A Celebration of Christmas presents the combined choirs and orchestra of BYU in 19 tracks of Christmas mood and memory. Seen nationally on PBS for several years, A Celebration of Christmas combines the spiritual, traditional, and international aspects of Christmas into one joyous concert, with music as timeless as Christmas itself.

TRACK LIST

1. I Saw Three Ships (Combined Choirs and Orchestra)

2. Away in a Manger (Combined Choirs and Orchestra)

3. Make We Merry on this Fest (Concert Choir)

4. A Savior from on High (Concert Choir)

5. Sing We Now of Christmas (BYU Singers)

6. Deck the Hall (Women's Chorus)

7. Wondrous Night (Women's Chorus)

8. Carol of the Drum (Men's Chorus)

9. Betelehemu (Men's Chorus)

10. Puer Nobis (BYU Singers)

11. Noel (BYU Singers)

12. Austrian Yodel Carol (Women's Chorus)

13. The Twelve Days of Christmas (Concert Choir)

14. We Need a Little Christmas (BYU Singers)

15. The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy (Men's Chorus, Panoramic Steel, and Orchestra)

16. Troika, from Lieutenant Kije Suite, op. 60 (Philharmonic Orchestra)

17. The Sycamore Tree (Men's Chorus and Philharmonic Orchestra)

18. He Is the Root and the Offspring of David (Combined Choirs and Orchestra)

19. Angels We Have Heard on High (Combined Choirs and Orchestra)



CREDITS

BYU Concert Choir

Mack Wilberg, conductor

BYU Philharmonic Orchestra

Clyn Barrus, conductor

BYU Men's Chorus

Mack Wilberg, conductor

BYU Singers

Ronald Staheli, conductor

BYU Panoramic Steel

Ron Brough, conductor

BYU Women's Chorus

Rosalind Hall, conductor

Tracks 1, 2, 15, 19

Arranged by Mack Wilberg

Track 14

Arranged by Ronald Staheli