The First Nowell

A Masterworks Chorale Christmas

Fun for the whole family with holiday masterpieces, an audience carols sing-along, a rollicking story about Saint Nick, and the first Phoenix performance in over a decade of The First Nowell, an exciting medley of carols by Warren Cohen, conductor of the Phoenix-based MusicaNova Orchestra.

“The carols that make up The First Nowell are a serious but lively bunch, including some lesser-known ones and new arrangements for the rest. In one, a drum sets our feet to dancing, in another both the American and English versions are sung at the same time.  One is in a style reminiscent of bluegrass fiddling, and one sounds for all the world like a wayward Handel ensemble.”  – Warren Cohen, arranger