00:00:00Ladies and gentlemen, maestro Enrique Dimec and the Flint Symphony Orchestra.
00:00:30Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, sing a song for the glorious season.
00:00:42Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, sing a song for the happy new year.
00:00:48Sing merrily, merrily, love and song, welcome to the wintery season.
00:00:53Merry Christmas, Lord, Lord, with a holiday storm, Santa is here again, yes!
00:00:58Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, sing a song for the happy new year.
00:01:11I'm afraid if I can be any fruit, it's really a matter of reason.
00:01:16Just listen to your feet, I love you, send us here again, yes!
00:01:22Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, sing a song for the happy new year.
00:01:27Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, sing a song for the happy new year.
00:01:33Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, sing a song for the happy new year.
00:01:39Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, sing a song for the happy new year.
00:01:45Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, sing a song for the happy new year.
00:02:49Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, sing a song for the happy of big day.
00:02:55Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, sing a song for the happiest reason.
00:03:01Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, all the time.
00:03:04There's a magical, miracle, practical, miracle.
00:03:08Sing it out loud, sing a song for a happy of good day.
00:03:11Yes!
00:03:11Yes!
00:03:23Live from the Whiting Auditorium in Flint's Cultural Center,
00:03:28ABC 12 and the Flint Institute of Music proudly present the 2015 Holiday Pops
00:03:33with Maestro Enrique de Meck and the Flint Symphony Orchestra.
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00:03:47Make her heart dance this Christmas with ballroom dance lessons.
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00:04:00Holiday Pops is a production of the Flint Institute of Music
00:04:03with support from the Charles Mott Foundation,
00:04:05the Ruth Mott Foundation and the Whiting.
00:04:08Now, please welcome your hosts, ABC 12's Angie Hendershot and Matt Franklin.
00:04:17Merry Christmas. I think they said it very eloquently, wonderfully, got us all in the spirit.
00:04:22They said it perfectly.
00:04:23Yes. Welcome to the ABC 12 Flint Institute of Music's Holiday Pops.
00:04:27We want to thank everyone here at the Whiting and also to you at home for joining us tonight.
00:04:31In our first election, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas,
00:04:34John Williams tells us to sing a song for the glorious season.
00:04:38And believe me, when you listen to what we've got in store for you tonight,
00:04:41we will not let you down.
00:04:42The Flint Symphony Orchestra, Flint Festival Chorus,
00:04:45and some very special guests have put together a performance
00:04:47to celebrate the season through song and music.
00:04:51And to guide us through the journey, as always,
00:04:53is maestro Enrique de Meck.
00:04:54That journey will continue now as the episode takes us to a wintry Ukrainian village.
00:05:14Rimsky-Korsakov sets the scene in this selection,
00:05:17Polonaise, from his opera, Christmas Eve.
00:05:20Rimsky-Kors
00:05:21Rimsky-Kors
00:40:19after this.
