In the meanwhile, there is Candlelight, to some players, the highlight of their year. Clinton’s “The Rose of Sonora,” performed by violinist Holly Mulcahy. 22 with “Letters from Home,” named for Aaron Copland’s patriotic composition, also to feature Dvorak’s Symphony No. At the end of each show, she acknowledges the kids and musicians, and talks to the audiences about the meaning of tradition: Why those carols are important and how they carry tradition forward.”Īway will go the batons and bows thereafter, to be picked up again for the resumption of BSO’s own season Jan. “She really engages with everyone, really engages with us.”Īdded Confessore, “She is very popular (with Candlelight participants as well as audiences). 29 and 30, but the favorite of all concerned, it seems, is Whoopi Goldberg, who will not appear this year. Gary Sinise is always very engaging,” Ferrigno said.įerrigno and Confessore both expressed appreciation for the considerate, good-natured Sajak, who will close Candlelight Dec. “When I first got here, we had celebrities like Eartha Kitt and Angie Dickinson, and later, Edward James Olmos became a regular. The BSO players do have their annual favorites, some of whom, they hope will return, like Sigourney Weaver and Isabella Rossellini. “She was wonderful, so gracious, and she is 88 years old,” he said. Vance, Andy Garcia, Blair Underwood and Pat Sajak.Ĭonfessore started this year’s event with one of the greats of stage, film and television: three-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera, “West Side Story’s” first Anita, and the photograph he posted to Facebook shows his elation. Still, the list of 2021 narrators is filled with notables, including Courtney B.
Some of the event’s most popular regular participants, the celebrities who read the account of Christ’s birth, will not return either, possibly out of caution with regard to the virus, or because they simply could not be booked in time, last year’s event having been canceled. For people who love Candlelight, it still is 100 percent Candlelight, though we’ve made some minor accommodations.” “It is a perfect time to show off the orchestra’s size, which is the same as it’s always been and looks exactly the same as it always has, including the fanfare trumpets. “That adds a different texture to the choral sound,” he said. Now, about 175 Walt Disney World cast members comprise the choir, with vocal arrangements “altered to feature the Voices of Liberty (EPCOT's American Adventure-based singers), singing in harmony,” in Confessore’s words. Until two years ago, about 300 seasonally vested participants, including 150 to 175 high school vocalists, bore their candles and solemnly proceeded to the stage to be part of the show, but COVID-19 put a stop to that.
It is not the same Candlelight Processional it once was, probably to the disappointment of hundreds of young choristers.
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