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Brighten your holiday season with a festive program featuring classical holiday favorites. Canadian conductor Naomi Woo makes her Sarasota Orchestra debut leading music from both The Nutcracker and Handel’s Messiah. Soprano Sarah Fleiss joins for Mozart’s exquisite Exsultate, jubilate for voice and small ensemble. Britten’s Men of Goodwill is a set of variations on “God rest ye merry, gentlemen.” Canadian Andrew Balfour’s gentle Kiwetin-acahcos (North Star) celebrates the beauty of Canada’s far north.