Works & Process at the Guggenheim announces

Holiday Concert in the Rotunda

featuring New York Composers

and a World Premiere Commission by Grawemeyer Award-winning Composer Sebastian Currier

December 18, 19, 2016
at 7:00 pm

Sunday, December 18 and Monday, December 19, 2016 at 7:00 pm, Works & Process at the Guggenheim presents the annual Holiday Concert featuring New York composers and a World Premiere Commission by Grawemeyer Award-winning Composer Sebastian Currier.  Celebrate the season with the joyous sounds of holiday music in the museum’s iconic rotunda. George Steel conducts the Vox Vocal Ensemble in what has become a revered annual tradition.

The Agnes Martin exhibition will be view in the rotunda.

2016 Works & Process Holiday Concert Program:

Music by New York Composers

Sebastian Currier – Blake Fragments (world premiere W&P Commission)

John Corigliano – Christmas at the Cloisters

George Steel – The Three Kings (W&P commission, 2013)

Traditional Holiday Music:

The Holly and the Ivy – trad, arr. Sir H. W. Davies (1869-1941)

Hodie Christus natus est – J. P. Sweelinck (1562-1621)

Puer Natus in Bethlehem – S. Scheidt

Coventry Carol – anon., 16th century

In the Bleak Midwinter – Harold Darke

Carols for All to Sing:

Joy to the World

Hark the Herald Angels Sing

O Come All Ye Faithful

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Once in Royal David’s City

Tickets & Venue:

Floor Seating: $40, $35 members and Friends of Works & Process

Ramp Standing: $20, $15 members and Friends of Works & Process

Box Office (212) 423-3575, (M-F, 1-5pm) or online at worksandprocess.org

Peter B. Lewis Theater
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, New York