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Candlelight Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
It’s an Advent favorite for a reason! Take a break from the holiday hubbub and prepare your soul for the Christmas miracle with this beautiful program of carols for choir and organ, in the tradition of King’s College, Cambridge. This beloved event on Sunday, December 10 at 3:00pm will fill the church, so arrive early to get a good seat. This event will be presented in person and by livestream.
The St. John’s Choir School and Adult Choir; Scott Lamlein, choirmaster; Floyd Higgins, organist.
A reception will follow this concert.
This concert is free admission, with donations received. Checks payable to Music at the Red Door or click here to donate online.
Click below to watch 2022’s Lessons & Carols. Click here for full program pdf.
2022 Program:
O radiant dawn (MacMillan)
The waiting sky (Tarney)
Prepare the way (Robles)
I wonder as I wander (Rütti)
In the bleak midwinter (Darke)
There is no rose (Stopford)
Ave Maria (Bruckner)
Child of the stable’s secret birth (Rathbone)
A simple Gloria (Larsen)
Saw you never in the twilight (Friedell)
My Lord is come (Todd)
and Carols for Choir and Congregation
Check out previous year’s Lessons and Carols: 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014