Product Review

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.

SONGS on the DVD
1. I Saw Three Ships (arr. Mack Wilberg)
Combined Choirs and Philharmonic Orchestra

2. Away in a Manger (arr. Mack Wilberg)
Combined Choirs and Philharmonic Orchestra

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

4. A Savior from on High (Stephen Paulus)
Concert Choir

5. Deck the Hall (arr. John Rutter)
Women's Chorus

6. Wondrous Night (Alun Hoddinott)
Women's Chorus

7. Carol of the Drum (Katherine K. Davis)
Men's Chorus

8. Betelehemu (via Michael Barbatudi Olatunji; arr. Wendall P. Whalum)
Men's Chorus

9. Puer Nobis (Richard Rodney Bennett)
University Singers

10. Nowel (Richard Rodney Bennett)
University Singers

11. Austrian Yodel Carol (arr. Andrew Carter)
Women's Chorus

12. The Twelve Days of Christmas (arr. Andrew Carter)
Concert Choir

13. We Need a Little Christmas (Jerry Herman; arr. Ronald Staheli)
University Singers

14. The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy (arr. Mack Wilberg)
Men's Chorus, Panoramic Steel, and Philharmonic Orchestra

15. Troika, from Lieutenant Kije Suite, op. 60 (Serge Prokofiev)
Philharmonic Orchestra

16. The Sycamore Tree (Peter Warlock)
Men's Chorus and Philharmonic Orchestra

17. He Is the Root and the Offspring of David, from The Redeemer (Robert Cundick)
Combined Choirs and Philharmonic Orchestra

18. Angels We Have Heard on High (arr. Mack Wilberg)
Combined Choirs and Philharmonic Orchestra