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Underwrite a ProgramFor the past four years, the #ClassicsaDay team has adopted Classical Christmas as its theme for December. And why not? We have a rich body of music related to the season dating back to the Middle Ages. A good deal of it is religious, but not all — many works are simply inspired by the time of year.
Scarlatti is credited with developing this form. Unlike most music performed in the church, the Christmas Cantata was sung in the vernacular, rather than Latin.
Christmas Eve was a four-act opera Rimsky-Korsakov finished in 1895. In 1904 he created an orchestral suite from the opera’s music.
“Everywhere, Everywhere Christmas Tonight!” was written by Rev. Phillps Brooks in the 1880s. Hailstork set the poem in 1993.
Paine composed this piano work in 1862. It’s one of his earliest published works, written when he was 23.
Langston Hughes wrote the libretto for this 1954 cantata. It uses Balthazar to “reinforce the image of African participation in the Nativity story.”
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