The Vocal Arts Ensemble of Durham presents “O Holy Night” our annual holiday concert

VAE’s annual holiday concert includes creative arrangements of traditional seasonal melodies as well as compositional settings of evocative texts related to this time of the year. The group’s 35 singers are conducted by Rodney Wynkoop and accompanied by David Cole.

Al Sturgis – Sing Noel!

Edwin Fissinger – O shepherds, leave your flocks

Cecilia McDowall – Annunciation

Anton Bruckner – Virga Jesse

Jonathan Willcocks – Wassail Song

John Rutter – Blow, blow, thou winter wind

William Averitt – A boy is born in Bethlehem

Steven Sametz – There is no rose of such virtue

Sametz – Thou Whose Birth

Abbie Betinis – Dormi, Jesu

Carolyn Jennings – I wonder as I wander

Daniel Pinkham – Glory be to God

Jocelyn Hagen – Mother’s Song

Gabriel Jackson – The Christ-Child

Bob Chilcott – My dancing day

Eleanor Daley – The Huron Carol

Vasyl Barvinskïy – Shcho to za predïvo (Oh, What a Wonder)

John Joubert – Hymn to the Virgin