Holiday Fantasy with Anthony Newman and the Westfair Singers

Called the “High Priest of Bach,” by Wynton Marsalis, composer and keyboardist Anthony Newman teams with the acclaimed Westfair Singers conducted by Mary Jane Newman to present a varied holiday program, including works for organ and piano by Bach, Handel, Rachmaninov and d’Aquin and featuring Mr. Newman’s own “Christmas Canons”, settings of traditional seasonal melodies in canonical form.

Program:

Fantasia on ‘TE DEUM – Anthony Newman 

LARGO AND FUGUE from Composer’s Sonata (Newman)

TOCCATA AND FUGUE IN d minor – JS BACH

Set of pieces of the Season S. Rachmaninov

LE COUCOU – Louis Claude d’Aquin

 FUGUE In e minor – JS BACH (the “Wedge”)

Set of anthems of the season by GF Handel
Westfair Singers

ANDANTE –  JS Bach

NOEL – Claude d’Aquin

PASSACAGLIA AND FUGUE In c minor JS BACH

CHRISTMAS CANNONS – Anthony Newman

Westfair Singers, MJ Newman, conducting