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Choral Holiday Special – Sunday, December 13 at 7 pm

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A special choral concert just in time for the holidays, featuring classic recordings and new collaborations by the Ragazzi Boys Chorus, Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, Musae and Lacuna Arts Chorale.

Ragazzi Boys Chorus

We Are The Day! – Mark Burrows

Xicochi – Gaspar Fernandez

Pastorale (Eastern Mongolian Folk Song) – arr. Xixian Qu

Exultati Justi – Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, ed. Earlene Rentz

Zikr: An Islamic Chant – A. R. Rahman

O Magnum Mysterium – Giovanni Gabrieli

Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir

Ding Dong Merrily On High – 16th c. French Carol, arr. Eric Tuan

Lux Aeterna – Z. Randall Stroope

Gaude Virgo – Josquin des Prez

Quiet Enlightenment – Reed Criddle

Personent Hodie (with Vox Aurae – Finland) – from Piae Cantiones, 1582

Musae

Huron Carol – traditional

Heaven Full of Stars – Eric William Barnum

Nuud ole, Jeesus, kiidetud – Kihnu Island traditional

Northern Lights – Ola Gjeilo

Lacuna Arts Chorale

The Story of Christmas – Hugo Distler

Magnificat

Chorale: Lob, Ehr sei Gott, dem Vater

Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir

Ave Maria – Franz Biebl

 

*All material previously recorded

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