A Merry TSO Christmas!

Last week the wife and I did our yearly ritual of heading down to Roy Thompson Hall for a Christmas concert featuring the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.  Last year we saw the TSO perform with the Canadian Brass which was great!  This year featured narrations by Canadian comedian Colin Mochrie for two of the numbers, "Twas the Night Before Christmas' and "The Twelve Days of Christmas".  You may remember him from the show 'Who's Line is it Anyways".

What made the Twelve Days of Christmas so special though was the play they did a long with it including young children acting out each of the 12 days and a full Scottish marching band with you guessed it... 12 drummers drumming and 11 pipers piping!! Wow did that sound fill the room.

Colin Mochrie!

 

11 Pipers Piping & 12 Drummers Drumming!

 
As always carols were sang at the end including Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Silent Night, O Come All Ye Faithfull and Joy to the World.

This concert always makes for a great evening out!  Oh and if you are looking for some good eats before the concert...may I suggest "The Stockyards."  They serve some awesome RIBS 2-3 days a week...and they go fast!

Here is the programme:

Programme:

Tyzik: A Christmas Overture
Tyzik: Gesu Bambino (with Ji Soo Choi, violin and Daniel Hass, cello) 
Newsom/Tyzik: Winter Wonderland
Arr. Tyzik: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Rag (featuring John Rudolph, xylophone)
Williams: Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas
Adam: O Holy Night
Arr. Fry: O Come O Come Emmanuel
Arr. Fry: We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Bass: ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
Anderson: Sleigh Ride
Arr. Tyzik: Chanukah Suite
Hayman: The Twelve Days of Christmas
Arr. Tyzik: Holiday Sing-along

• Jeff Tyzik, conductor
• Colin Mochrie, narrator
• Etobicoke School of the Arts Chorus

Merry Christmas everyone!