The RPO calls its Holiday Pops concert "Rochester's favorite holiday musical tradition," and it may well be right about that. Certainly this annual orchestral assortment of carols and other holiday music, presided over by the genial Jeff Tyzik, has packed Kodak Hall for quite a few years now. Besides the virtuosi of the RPO, you'll hear the Festival High School Chorale, consisting of outstanding singers from many area high schools and co-directed by Harold McAuliffe and Amy Story, and the Community Children's Chorus, directed by Karla Krogstad.

The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra performs "Gala Holiday Pops" Friday, December 20 8 p.m., Saturday, December 21 at 2 and 8 p.m., and Sunday, December 22 at 2 p.m. in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, $15-$92, rpo.org.