Performers
- Nicholas Chalmersconductor
- Ashley Groteorgan
About This Event
On the anniversary of Olivier Messiaen’s birth, organist Ashley Grote play’s Messiaen’s festive masterpiece, La Nativité du Seigneur.
The nine meditations on Christ’s Nativity were written as a celebration of the motherhood of the Virgin Mary, the figure nine chosen to represent the nine months of pregnancy. Each movement serves as a musical commentary on a different aspect of the Christmas story, before which the Â鶹Éç Singers perform a piece of thematicallyl linked choral music.
Messian La nativité du Seigneur
Poulenc Quem vidistis pastores
Joanna Marsh Lord, Thou hast searched me and known me
Egil Hovland The Glory of the Father
William Byrd Non vos relinquam orphanos
Adrian Peacock Venite, Gaudete!
Sarah Quartel This endris night
Naji Hakim ±·´Çë±ô