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With over 10 million recordings sold around the world, no orchestra has had more albums on the Billboard charts than the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra! Home for the Holidays is the culmination of a year-long celebration of the inaugural season of Pops Conductor John Morris Russell. Featuring an exceptionally diverse collection of Yuletide classics including InchDeck the Halls,Inch InchO Holy NightInch with powerhouse tenor Rodrick Dixon, and New York Voices' jazzy twist on InchSanta Claus is Comin' to Town,Inch alongside Gounod's InchAve MariaInch and InchYes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus,Inch which cleverly combines Edward Elgar's InchNimrodInch from Enigma Variations with text from an 1897 editorial in the New York Sun, narrated by Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell expressing the child-like wonderment felt during the holiday season. Album Tracks 1. Deck the Halls 2. O Holy Night 3. We Three Kings 4. I Believe 5. Jolly Old St. Nicholas / Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town 6. Angel's Dance 7. Home for the Holidays 8. Go Tell It on the Mountain 9. Ave Maria 10. Farandole 11. Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (Nimrod from Enigma Variations) 12. Sleigh Ride 13. A Winter Miracle (Winter/Hanukkah O Hanukkah) 14. Parade of the Wooden Soldiers 15. We Wish You a Merry Christmas
