Candlelit concert by London Concertante of music from Christmas films such as 'Home Alone', 'The Polar Express' and 'Elf'.
London Concertante bring Christmas at the Movies by Candlelight to Lincoln Cathedral on Saturday 19 December, a candlelit concert that takes the audience through the music of some of the most well-known festive films. The programme runs from the golden age of Hollywood to more modern cinematic classics, pairing film scores with timeless holiday songs.
There's a fair bit of ground to cover in one evening. You'll hear John Williams' Home Alone and Alan Silvestri's The Polar Express, alongside John Debney's Elf and Craig Armstrong's Love Actually. The older side of things is held down by Dimitri Tiomkin's It's a Wonderful Life and Irving Berlin's White Christmas, which is described as the best-selling single of all time. It's a mix of scores and songs, and the cathedral setting adds its own atmosphere to the whole thing.
London Concertante are the ones behind it, and they've put together a set that moves across a few decades of cinema. The programme pairs those film scores with holiday songs, so you'll get the orchestral themes and the more familiar carols and classics side by side. The cathedral is the venue, and it's a candlelit performance, so the lighting is part of the evening as much as the music.
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It starts at 19:30 on Saturday 19 December at Lincoln Cathedral, Minster Yard, LN2 1PX. Tickets run from £27.80 to £76.55 and are available via Eventbrite.
