In Terra Pax - Sunday Afternoon

Featuring Gerald Finzi's "In Terra Pax," an incomparable meditation on peace for chorus and soloists, plus joyous songs of the season and a festive audience carols sing-along, this concert gets everyone in the Holiday Spirit. Joy to the World!

Since the concert falls during Hanukkah, we open with “Light the Legend” which describes this celebration of light.  From there, we dive into Christmas with the favorites: “The First Noël” and “Gesu Bambino”, followed by one of the best-known choral works of the 20^th Century:  Morton Lauridsen’s “O Magnum Mysterium.”  Gift-wrapped with some audience carols comes the centerpiece of our concert, the lush choral work by Gerald Finzi, “In Terra Pax” with its gorgeous bass and soprano solos and warm choral writing.  We continue, without any intermission, with two pieces by local composer, singer, and conductor, Darren Herring.  His wonderful settings of “There is No Rose” and “Coventry Carol” will leave you spellbound.  The concert wraps up with a jazzy “Christmas Wish” by Mac Frampton and a “Feast of Carols” by Randol Bass.

Happy holidays to all!

Concert Program

• Light and Legend - A Song for Chanukah by Michael Isaacson & Susan Nurenberg
• The First Noël arr. Dan Forrest
• Gesu Bambino by Pietro A. Yon, arr. Ruth Artman
• O Magnum Mysterium by Morten Lauridsen
• AUDIENCE CAROLS:  O Come, All Ye Faithful / Go, Tell it on the Mountain
• In Terra Pax: A Christmas Scene by Gerald Finzi - Soloists Adrienne Goglia, soprano, and Patrick West, baritone.  Text based on Robert Bridges' poem "Noël, Christmas Eve, 1913" and Luke 2:8-17
• AUDIENCE CAROLS: Angels We Have Heard on High / Joy to the World
• There is No Rose of Such Virtue by Darren Herring
• Coventry Carol by Darren Herring
• A Christmas Wish by Mac Frampton
• A Feast of Carols arr. Randall Alan Bass

Program subject to change without notice