At 8PM on VPR & VPR Classical, it’s a special Christmas eve with Vermont’s own Counterpoint.
At 9pm on VPR Classical, it’s VocalEssence ensemble with "Welcome, Christmas!" – a
lovely program of favorite and contemporary carol arrangements.
At 9pm on VPR, Walter Parker presents Blanche Moyse conducting Bach’s Christmas Oratorio.
Visit the VPR Holiday Page for the full schedule of Holiday Programming… and more!
“A Counterpoint Christmas”
Counterpoint, Robert DeCormier, director
Roger Grow, conducting
Herbert Howells: A
Spotless Rose
Andrea Gabrieli: O
Magnum Mysterium
Anton Bruckner: Virga
Jesse
Maurice Durufle: Ubi
Caritas
Daniel Read: Sherburne
Franz Biebl: Ave
Maria
Peter Hamlin: Behold the Wonder of This Night
William Billings: Shiloh (Me thinks I
See an Heavenly Host)
John Joubert: There is No Rose
Trad. Italian (arr. Robert DeCormier): Dormi, dorni o bel bambin’
Franz Gruber (arr. Malcolm Sargent): Silent Night
Randall Thompson:
Alleluia
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“Welcome Christmas”
2009
VocalEssence Chorus & Ensemble Singers
Philip Brunelle, conductor
Randal Davidson, psalter Jhony Garcia, quena, quenilla, quenacho and zamponas
Dave Hagedorn, percussion Sonja Thompson, organ Min Kim, harp
Greg Hippen, double bass Charles Hodgson, French horn Christopher Kachian,
guitar
Program:
Stephen Paulus: The Ship Carol, from Jesu Carols
Scott Ethier: A Mother’s Carol
Peter Hilliard: Christ’s Nativity
Libby Larsen: Beautiful Star
James Pierpont: Jingle Bells
Traditional, arr. Leland Sateren: When Christmas Morn is
Dawning
Richard Rodney Bennett: My Dancing Day
Robert Wetzler: Noel, my Jesus
Traditional: Ya viene el Ni’ito
Diego Luzuriaga: El Nino de los Andes: Selections
Conrad Susa: A Christmas Garland
Dominick Argento: Gloria