Welcome to a special concert edition of our On Air podcast featuring the Double Entendre Music Ensemble performing a Holiday Concert Featuring a performance of highlights from George Frideric Handel’s Messiah and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker arranged by Inwood resident, Gilbert Dejean.

The concert was recorded live on December 3, 2023 at Good Shepherd Auditorium in Inwood, NYC.

Holiday Concert Program:

Excerpts from The Nutcracker - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

• Overture Miniature

• Waltz of the Flowers

Excerpts from The Messiah - George Frideric Handel

• All We, like Sheep, Have Gone Astray

• Glory to God

• For Unto Us A Child Is Born

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

• Marche

• Danse Arab

• Trepak

George Frideric Handel

• Lift Up Your Heads

• Hallelujah Chorus

Serge Prokofiev

• Troika from Lieutenant Kije Suite

Musicians:

Oboes: Michelle Farah, BJ Karpen, Setsuko Otake, Alexis Porcaro,

English horns: Ellen Gruber, Ryan Walsh

Bassoons: Yuki Higashi, Melissa Kritzer, Shotaro Mori, Atsuko Sato

Contrabassoon: Dirk Wels