Carol of the Bells
- Based on “Shchedryk”, a Ukrainian New Year song arranged by Mykola Leontovych between 1901 and 1916; Peter Wilhousky wrote the English words in 1936.
A selection of the most famous Christmas songs, with choir, soloists and orchestra.
The fourteenth annual Christmas concert, on 16 and 17 December at the Cairo Opera House, with the Cairo Opera Orchestra under Nayer Nagui and the soloists Jacqueline Rafik, Dina Iskander, Amina Khairat and Elhamy Amin among others. The programme ran from Pachelbel’s Canon and Panis Angelicus to Carol of the Bells and a Vaughan Williams Christmas sequence.