Music & Comedy
Candlelight: Holiday Special Featuring “The Nutcracker” & More
⭐ Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Chicago. Get your tickets now to discover music inspired by the winter and holiday spirit at Wicker Park Lutheran Church under the gentle glow of candlelight.
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General Info📍 Venue: Wicker Park Lutheran Church📅 Dates and times: select your dates/times directly in the ticket selector⏳ Duration: 60 minutes (doors open 45 mins prior to the start time and late entry is not permitted)👤 Age requirement: 8 years old or older. Anyone under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult♿ Accessibility: This venue is not ADA compliant❓ View the FAQs for this event here🪑 Seating is assigned on a first come first served basis in each zone🕯️ If you would like to book a private concert (min 15+ people), please click here🎻 Check out all the Candlelight concerts in Chicago🎁 To treat your friends and family to a Candlelight gift card, click here
Tentative Program
Holiday Medley – Various
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
The First Noël
Deck the Halls
O Holy Night – Adolphe Adam
The Snow is Dancing – Claude Debussy
The Seasons, Op. 37a: – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
I. January. “By the Hearth”
XII. December. “Christmas”
The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 8 No. 4 RV 297: “Winter” – Vivaldi
The Skaters’ Waltz, Op. 183 (Les Patineurs) – Émile Waldteufel
Greensleeves (What Child is This) – Traditional
Holiday Medley
Joy to the World
Angels We Have Heard on High
Away in a Manger
The Nutcracker, Op. 71 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Miniature Overture
Act I, Scene II: No. 2, “March”
Act II: No. 12d, Divertissement. “Trepak, Russian Dance”
Act II: No. 13, “Waltz of the Flowers”
Act II: No. 14c, Pas de Deux. Variation II, “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy”
Performers
Listeso String Quartet
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