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GETTING READY FOR HOLIDAYS
Holidays are twinkling with concert music. DSO management has cancelled the orchestra's first two December programs, concerts Friday through Sunday with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and the Hollywood Pictures pops concerts Dec. 9-11. Management has kept the pops series Home for the Holidays with music director Leonard Slatkin, Dec. 16-19, on the schedule in hope of a settlement in its contract dispute with the musicians.
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Meanwhile, there is ample classical music elsewhere, mostly attuned to the holidays. Several established orchestras offer concerts that range from traditional Yuletide fare to strictly classical music, starting with performances by the Windsor Symphony at 8 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday.
Under music director John Morris Russell, the Windsor orchestra joins with its own chorus augmented by the Detroit Choral Society for its annual program of traditional Christmas music at Chrysler Theatre.
The Plymouth-Canton Symphony spotlights its trumpet section in music of Vivaldi and Leroy Anderson in two concerts on Dec. 16 at Penn Theatre in downtown Plymouth. That musical gift package, led by music director Nan Washburn, also includes music from "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and appearances by both St. Nick and Snoopy.