Having sold 724,000 copies in the United States, it is the best-selling film soundtrack/holiday album hybrid since Nielsen SoundScan started tracking music sales in 1991. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA in November 2007. It was sung at the 77th Academy Awards show by original performer Josh Groban with Beyoncé.

The song, ' Believe', written by Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri, was nominated for Best Original Song at the 77th Academy Awards. The Polar Express, Chris Van Allsburg’s best-selling Christmas classic, tells the story of a boy who boards a mysterious train bound for the North Pole.The Polar Express: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the animated film of the same name, released on Novemby Warner Sunset Records and Reprise Records. To close the program we will also teach the audience a new carol to send them on their way with a final new tradition. Constantly flitting through the composition are familiar strains of fragments of beloved Christmas music: 'Deck the Halls,' 'Joy to the World,' and 'The First Noel' - all reinvented as part of the fabric of a new Christmas tradition. I in turn have taken that story and made IT come alive in a new way. and invented a completely new story, making those elements come alive in a completely, new way. Chris Van Allsburg has likewise taken all the basic elements of Christmas - Santa Claus, presents, etc. The program will begin with an interaction, where I ask kids, 'What has your family added to traditional holiday activities that make them your own.' Then we show how John Harbison takes one of the most traditional songs in the world, 'The Twelve Days of Christmas,' and reinvents it as a virtuoso brass quintet.

We decided to create a concert that does that too. The idea behind the concert is that holidays survive because they get reinvented, not replicated. Coordinated projections of the iconic images from the original book are now available for live performance with this piece.ĭazzle children and their families with larger than life illustrations of the Express, Santa Claus and his reindeer, and the endearing Billy who learns the spirit of Christmas through a series of snowy adventures to the North Pole.

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