Presented by the James Family Trust

Full Orchestra and Ballet

• Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite
• Meyerbeer: Les Patineurs
• Christmas choral selections accompanied by orchestra, arranged by Rutter, Forrest, and Mechem

Alexander Walker, Conductor
Margot Fonteyn Academy of Ballet Alumni, Artistic Director Ken Ludden
Voci Sorella from Yavapai Youth Choirs and
Una Voce Women’s Choir, Artistic Director Arlene Bodensteiner Hardy

Arizona Philharmonic, Margot Fonteyn Academy of Ballet, and British conductor Alexander Walker team up to present a memorable evening of festive holiday dance and music. International alumni of the Academy dance to Tchaikovsky’s iconic Nutcracker Suite and Frederick Ashton’s Les Patineurs, a winter ballet set to the music of Giacomo Meyerbeer. The outstanding Yavapai Youth Choirs and Una Voce Women’s Choir complement these performances with their angelic voices accompanying the orchestra in the ballet and in Christmas music.

Photograph by Hank Gans © 2007