Bel Canto presents The World at Christmas

Start: Friday, December 1, 2023 7:30PM
End: Friday, December 1, 2023 9:00PM

Our program of diverse music invites you to experience longing and hope in Elaine Hagenberg's setting of the ancient text, O Come, Emmanuel accompanied by a haunting cello obligato.
- Celebrate the return of the light, in a mystical a cappella arrangement by Taylor Scott Davis entitled Solstice.
- Be touched by Anders Edenroth's The World for Christmas which blends fragments of The Night Before Christmas with lyrics that beg us to consider the fate of the world around us, and featuring our first Bel Canto Music Scholarship recipient, Camden Gilgallon.
- Get energized and inspired by a hip-hop re-imagining of the well-known spiritual, Soon We Will Be Done complete with rap exhortation to be part of the change we seek in the world.
- As always, there will be gorgeously lush settings of traditional carols along with J. S. Bach's Cantata 191 Gloria in excelsis Deo, which will feature outstanding Bay Area instrumentalists as well as Napa native, Lisa Austin Frisque (soprano) and her husband, Chad (tenor), as soloists.

Prices:
General Admission - Adult: USD 35.00,
Students: USD 15.00

Artist: Ted von Pohle