Performance

A Charlie Brown Christmas

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Vince Guaraldi’s *A Charlie Brown Christmas* is a 1965 film score written for the first broadcast of the Peanuts holiday television special, later released as an album that crossed jazz language into the American seasonal canon. Heard now in a Classical concert setting at David Geffen Hall, it sits alongside other “Sounds of the Season” touchstones, with the New York Philharmonic led by Naomi Woo and featuring Wendell Pierce and Frank Huang. Its spare melodies and cool harmonies treat Christmas as mood and memory rather than spectacle.