Christmas Day Organ Recital

Washington National Cathedral organist George Fergus and Thomas Sheehan play a Christmas afternoon recital of traditional and familiar holiday favorites on the Cathedral’s great organ. $10 recommended donation. Passes are not required.

Repertoire

Improvisation on "Adeste fideles"
Francis Pott (b. 1957)

Fantasia on "Greensleeves", Op. 1131
Carson Cooman (b. 1982)

Selections from the Nutcracker Suite
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), tr. Frederick Hohman
Russian Dance
Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy
Chinese Dance
Waltz of the Flowers

Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella
arr. Keith Chapman (1945-1989)

Christmas Suite
Gilbert Martin (b. 1941)

Sleigh Ride
Leroy Anderson (1908-1975)

Hallelujah, from Messiah
George Friderick Handel (1685-1759)