All eyes were on Salina Symphony Conductor Yaniv Segal during the festival's opening number, "Christmas Overture" by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Images Courtesy Heartland Photography Salina Chorale and Kansas Wesleyan University Chorale sing a classic Christmas hymn "Silent Night." Images Courtesy Heartland PhotographyIron Street Dancers from Theatre Salina perform at the 2023 Salina Christmas Festival Images Courtesy Heartland PhotographyCTA dancer Paige Shaft leaps through the air while the symphony plays the Concert Suite from the Polar Express by Alan Silverstri and Glen Ballard/ arranged by Jerry Brubaker. Images Courtesy Heartland PhotographySegal conducts the Salina Symphony at the 2023 Salina Christmas Festival. Images Courtesy Heartland PhotographyFrom Left: Rhapsody Polzella, Vivienne Hoffman and Maggie Brown-Mereles act as children ready to board the Polar Express while the Salina Symphony plays popular songs from the Warner Bros. hit holiday film, "The Polar Express." Images Courtesy Heartland PhotographyFrom Left: Kansas Wesleyan University Chorale members Marah Walley, Rachael Everitt, and Tru Emelie. Images Courtesy Heartland PhotographyAnnabelle Burr, ballet dancer at Tamara Howe School of Dance, dances while Salina Symphony plays the Cherevichki, Act III, Scene III: Cossack Dance. Images Courtesy Heartland PhotographyCamille and Andrew Graber, dancers with Iron Street Dance Company, perform a routine to the music of the "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" by Leon Jessel and arranged by Morton Gould. Images Courtesy Heartland PhotographyImages Courtesy Heartland PhotographyDancers representing Tamera Howe School of Dance and Iron Street Dance Company line the aisles of the Stiefel Theatre while choirs and symphony perform a Hollywood Christmas favorite, "Somewhere in My Memory" by John Williams from the hit movie "Home Alone." Photo Courtesy Heartland Photography
