Each year, the mystery of the Nativity invites us to contemplate with awe and to respond with joy. Music of contemplation and music of joy are both featured in this season's Concordia Christmas Concert. Highlights from the 2017 concert, From Heaven Above to Earth He Comes, feature the combined choirs and orchestra of Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota.
Contemporary and traditional works (including a tribute to Leonard Bernstein) are brilliantly and lovingly presented in this yearly holiday treat, hosted by Steve Staruch.
Program
• Traditional: From Heaven Above (arr. Rene Clasen)
• Traditional: O come All Ye Faithful (arr. Dan Forrest)
• Rene Clausen: O Magnum Mysterium
• Kim Andre Arnesen: Cradle Hymn
• Herbert Howells: A Spotless Rose
• Leonard Bernstein: "Sanctus" from Mass
• John Gardner: Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
• Traditional: Ding! Dong! Merrily on High (arr. Mark Burrows)
• Steven Sametz: Gaudete
• Traditional: He Came Down (arr. Rene Clausen)
• Traditional: The Holly and the Ivy (arr. Alice Parker)
• Traditional: Still, Still, Still (arr. Rene Clausen)
• Traditional: In the Bleak Midwinter (arr. Michael Culloton)
• Traditional: Wind Through the Olive Trees (arr. Paul J Christiansen)
• F. Melius Christiansen: O Day Full of Grace
• Franz Gruber: Silent Night (arr. Rene Clausen)
• Rene Clausen: Stay with Us
Resources
Concordia College (official site)
The Concordia Choir (official site)
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