Oregon Symphony Announces Holiday Concert Lineup

The Oregon Symphony’s holiday concert series will feature a variety of festive classics, cultural celebrations and live performances of popular film scores to the movies on the big screen.

This year’s schedule includes the 25th annual performance of Gospel Christmas, featuring the NorthwestCommunity Gospel Chorus. A must-see holiday tradition, the multicultural chorus consists of approximately 80 members from 25 houses of faith and organizations in the Portland area and beyond. Also returning this year are Holiday Brass, Comfort & Joy, and A Very Merry Mariachi Christmas with Mariachi Sol de México de José Hernández.

For classical music fans, the symphony will perform Vivaldi’s wildly popular Four Seasons and Beethoven’s monumental Ninth Symphony. Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is a set of four violin concertos representing spring, summer, autumn, and winter. In keeping with the season’s theme, The Nature of Music, The symphony will capture the sounds of the changing seasons. and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is a fitting way to bring in the new year with its universal themes of hope, joy and unity.

The holiday series also includes family favorites – Disney’s Frozen and A Charlie Brown Christmas with the orchestra performing the score live as well as the holiday rom-com Love Actually. And to ring in the new year, Michael Feinstein pays tribute to the legendary Tony Bennett in Because of You: My Tribute to Tony Bennett featuring The Carnegie Hall Ensemble.

All holiday performances will be held at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall unless otherwise noted.