The Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra will perform at Upper Darby High School on Sunday, Dec 8 at 3 p.m.
The Christmas concert will include renditions of "Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo,” by Aaron Copland; "Three Black Kings," by Duke Ellington; Leroy Anderson's "Sleigh Ride;" Georg Frideric Handel's The Messiah, “Hallelujah” Chorus and others.
The orchestra will be joined on stage by the Upper Darby High School Chorus.
Tickets are $20 and can be purchased in the Upper Darby High School lobby.
Founded in 1945, the Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra s one of the oldest community orchestras in the Greater Philadelphia area.
In 2019, the Orchestra won The American Prize Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for the Performance of American Music, which recognizes and rewards the best performances of American music by ensembles and individual artists worldwide, based on submitted recordings. The Orchestra’s entry was “The American Romantics,” a collection of previously unrecorded music of the late 19th and 20th century.