Our Fall 2014 trimester, Holiday Light and Love, celebrates the Christmas holiday with works a cappella and accompanied. The joys and beauties of Christmas are expressed in French Baroque composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier's delightful Messe de Minuit pour Noël, with more contemporary Christmas texts and sounds in Norman Dello Joio's The Holy Infant's Lullaby and Conrad Susa's Three Mystical Carols.
Holiday time also is a time of light. We sing settings of O Nata Lux by 16th century English composer Thomas Tallis and contemporary American composer Morten Lauridsen. In addition, we sing about love. We perform French composer Maurice Duruflé's and contemporary Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo's settings of the beloved text about love and charity, Ubi Caritas.