Over nearly two decades, Morihiko Nakahara has conducted the majority of Holiday Pops concerts — with some being more memorable than others

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Sometimes Santa steals conductor Morihiko Nakahara’s spotlight.

Morihiko Nakahara can’t remember exactly when he started conducting the Spokane Symphony’s annual Holiday Pops concert. It was likely in 2003, his first year with the organization. And by his own estimate, he’s led 13 or 14 of the orchestra’s Holiday Pops programs in the almost two decades since, having ceded a handful of occasions to the music directors at the time or headlining guest artists traveling with their own conductors.

“It was sort of in my

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