Candlelight: Holiday Special ft. “The Nutcracker”

See a talented string quartet performing classic holiday pieces, including Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker suite, inside The Parthenon (2500 West End Ave., Nashville) bathed in candlelight . Shows are at 7 and 9 p.m. and last 65 minutes. Tickets start at $33.

Tentative Program

• Holiday Medley – Various
  • “Hark the Herald Angels Sing”
  • “The First Noël”
  • “Deck the Halls”
• “O Holy Night” – Adolphe Adam
• “Ma’oz Tzur” – Traditional Hanukkah Song
• “The Snow is Dancing” – Claude Debussy
• “The Seasons, Op. 37a” – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • I. January. “By the Hearth”
  • XII. December. “Christmas”
• “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”