Westminster Community Orchestra, conducted by Ruth Ochs, will present a concert and holiday sing along titled Holiday Chestnuts and Sing-Along on Wednesday, Dec. 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the Robert L. Annis Playhouse on the campus of Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton.
A free-will offering of non-perishable food or monetary donations will be collected at the event and distributed to local food pantries.
The program will include such favorites as Let it Snow, The Christmas Song, excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, Leroy Anderson’s A Christmas Festival, and Feldstein’s Chanukah Celebration. Everyone will be invited to join in singing familiar carols and the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah.
Now in her 12th season as conductor and music director of the Westminster Community Orchestra, Ochs has led the orchestra in performances of major orchestral and choral-orchestral works, including symphonies by Beethoven, Brahms, Haydn, Mozart, Saint-Saëns, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky.
Under her leadership, the orchestra features choral ensembles and soloists from the Westminster Conservatory and collaborates with Westminster Choir College students. She is also the founding conductor of the Princeton Charter School/Westminster Conservatory Youth Orchestra, and she is in her 13th season as the conductor of the Princeton University Sinfonia.
Westminster Choir College of Rider University is located on the corner of Hamilton Avenue and Walnut Lane in Princeton. For more information visit rider.edu/arts.
