Someday at Christmas (Jackie Evancho album)

Someday at Christmas
Studio album by Jackie Evancho
Released October 28, 2016 (2016-10-28)
Genre Classical crossover, Holiday
Length 45:31
Label Portrait
Producer Nick Patrick
Jackie Evancho chronology
Awakening
(2014)		 Someday at Christmas
(2016)

Someday at Christmas is American singer Jackie Evancho's second full-length Christmas album, and her seventh album overall. It contains 12 tracks and was produced by Nick Patrick for Sony Masterworks' Portrait label.[1] The album was released on October 28, 2016 and consists of nine previously released tracks, including collaborations with Plácido Domingo, Peter Hollens and Vittorio Grigolo, and three new tracks, "Someday at Christmas" and two versions of "The Little Drummer Boy", one with Il Volo.[2]

The title track, "Someday at Christmas", has an anti-war and civil rights theme. It was written by Ron Miller and Bryan Wells and first released as a single by Stevie Wonder in 1966.[3] It reached #24 on the Billboard Christmas singles chart that year. It then became the title track to Wonder's 1967 album, Someday at Christmas, which also shares two other tracks this album: "The Little Drummer Boy" and "The Christmas Song".[4]

The album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Classical Albums chart[5] and No. 19 on the Billboard Holiday Albums chart.[6]

Promotion

Evancho performed the title track on the Memphis, Tennessee, morning show Local Memphis Live on November 3, 2016.[7] Shortly before the release of the album, she appeared on the cover of the Fall 2016 issue of Inspiring Lives Magazine. The issue contains an interview, "Jackie Evancho: An Opera Angel and a Pop Star".[8] She also performed some of the songs from the album in her 2016 holiday concerts.[9][10] Evancho is scheduled to perform "Little Drummer Boy" on NBC's Today Show on December 14[11] and the title track on the America's Got Talent holiday special on December 19, 2016.[12]

Reception

The album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Classical Albums chart[5] and No. 19 on the Billboard Holiday Albums chart.[6]

A review in Cedar Rapids, Iowa's The Gazette called the album "a shimmering showcase for [Evancho's] incredible vocal range and interests. ... [The] duets in this project display her talents for harmonies, as well as tender melodies."[13]

Track listing

No. TitleWriter(s), arranger(s) and previous release(s) Length
1. "Someday at Christmas"  Ronald Miller and Bryan Wells; arranged by Robert Kinkel, Dina Fanai and Heather Holley; string arr: Dave Eggar; produced by Dina Fanai and Heather Holley 4:18
2. "Do You Hear What I Hear"  Gloria Shayne Baker (music) Noël Regney (lyrics); orchestra arr: Sally Herbert (Awakening Deluxe ed. 2014) 4:11
3. "Guardian Angels" (with Plácido Domingo)Harpo Marx (music) Gerda Beilenson (lyrics) (Domingo: My Christmas 2015) 3:51
4. "Little Drummer Boy"  Katherine Kennicott Davis, Henry Onorati and Harry Simeone;[14] arranged by Robert Kinkel and Dina Fanai; produced by Dina Fanai and Heather Holley 3:09
5. "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear"  Richard Storrs Willis (music) Edmund Sears (lyrics); orchestra arrangement by Sally Herbert (Awakening Deluxe ed. 2014) 3:40
6. "Pie Jesu" (with Plácido Domingo; from Requiem)Andrew Lloyd Webber (music); Traditional (lyrics) (Domingo: My Christmas 2015) 3:59
7. "Christmas Waltz"  Jule Styne (music) Sammy Cahn (lyrics); orchestra arrangement by Sally Herbert (Awakening Deluxe ed. 2014) 3:26
8. "Hallelujah" (with Peter Hollens)Leonard Cohen; arranged by Tom Anderson; produced by Peter Hollens (Peter Hollens 2014) 4:08
9. "The Christmas Song"  Bob Wells and Mel Tormé (music and lyrics); orchestra arrangement by Sally Herbert (Awakening Deluxe ed. 2014) 3:39
10. "O Holy Night" (featuring Vittorio Grigolo)Adolphe Adam (music) John Sullivan Dwight (lyrics);[15] arranged by Nick Patrick and William Hayward (Awakening Deluxe ed. 2014; Ave Maria (Grigolo) 2013) 4:11
11. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (from Meet Me in St. Louis)Ralph Blane (music) Hugh Martin (lyrics); orchestra arrangement by Sally Herbert (Awakening Deluxe ed. 2014) 3:50
12. "Little Drummer Boy" (featuring Il Volo)Davis, Onorati and Simeone; arranged by Kinkel and Fanai; produced by Fanai and Holley; Il Volo's vocals produced by Celso Valli 3:09
Total length:
 45:31

Charts

Chart (2016) Peak
position
US Billboard Classical Albums 2
US Billboard Holiday Albums 19

References

  1. ↑ Evancho, Jackie. Liner notes, Someday at Christmas, October 28, 2016, Sony Music Entertainment
  2. ↑ Evancho, Jackie. Someday at Christmas, Sony Masterworks (2016), ASIN B01KBGV3GC
  3. ↑ Lodder, Steve. "Sixties Recordings", Stevie Wonder: A Musical Guide to the Classic Albums, p. 42, Hal Leonard Corporation (2005) ISBN 0879308214
  4. ↑ "Stevie Wonder: Someday at Christmas", Allmusic, accessed October 28, 2016
  5. 1 2 Classical Albums, the week of December 3, 2016, Billboard, November 23, 2016
  6. 1 2 Holiday Albums, the week of November 19, 2016, Billboard, November 8, 2016
  7. ↑ Local Memphis Live, Nexstar Broadcasting Group, November 3, 2016
  8. ↑ Forsyth, Jen. "Jackie Evancho: An Opera Angel and a Pop Star", Inspiring Lives Magazine, Fall 2016, pp. 8–13 accessed October 27, 2016
  9. ↑ Jordan, Chris. "Jackie Evancho brings Christmas cheer to the Basie", Asbury Park Press, November 25, 2016
  10. ↑ Barnes, Steve. "Evancho Sparkles, Alas with Little Emotion", Times Union, November 27, 2016
  11. ↑ Cantor, Brian. "Pharrell, Jimmy Buffett, Pentatonix, Jackie Evancho, More Performing On NBC’s Today Show", Headline Planet, December 2, 2016
  12. ↑ Rowe, M. A. "Jackie Evancho to Release Holiday Album, Someday at Christmas", MusicTap.net, September 12, 2016; and Decker, Trevor. "New Music Spotlight: Someday at Christmas Jackie Evancho", Trevordecker.com, October 31, 2016
  13. ↑ Nollen, Diana. "Holiday Music: 12 discs of Christmas", The Gazette, November 27, 2016
  14. ↑ Leigh, Spencer. "Harry Simeone: Populariser of 'The Little Drummer Boy'", The Independent, March 5, 2005, accessed November 28, 2016
  15. ↑ Original French lyrics by Placide Cappeau

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