Upcoming Events
Come and enjoy our annual holiday concert!
O Holy Night
Friday, December 8, 7:30 pm, at First Presbyterian Church in Durham
Free Admission
Al Sturgis – Sing Noel!
Edwin Fissinger – O shepherds, leave your flocks
Cecilia McDowall – Annunciation
Anton Bruckner – Virga Jesse floruit
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
Some rare and intensely beautiful fare that was almost without exception profoundly inspiring and moving, particularly given the magnificence of the singing… We may never take this art for granted, so it’s worthwhile reflecting on how much work goes into it… so what one remembers is the sheer beauty as each of the individual pieces unfold… so pure, so refined was the singing
About VAE
YouTube Channel
Visit the VAE’s YouTube channel to see professionally recorded past live performances, including the 25th Anniversary Concert in Duke Chapel and the 2021 Holiday Concert at First Presbyterian Church.