SERIES 06: NOËL! NOËL!
An organ breaks and a tradition begins
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS Filled with timeless carols including O Come All Ye Faithful , Stille Nacht and many musical surprises.
ARTISTS Paul Dyer AO Artistic Director, conductor Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Brandenburg Choir
SERIES 06
SYDNEY, CITY RECITAL HALL Saturday, 11 December 5:00PM Saturday, 11 December 7:30PM Wednesday, 15 December 5:00PM Wednesday, 15 December 7:30PM MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE Saturday, 18 December 5:00PM Saturday, 18 December 7:30PM
On Christmas Eve in 1818, in the Austrian town of Oberndorf, one of the most celebrated Christmas carols of all-time was composed. In the church of St Nicholas, preparation for the Midnight Mass had been thrown into chaos with the discovery that the church organ had broken. Faced with the possibility of a silent night, the parish priest and the organist rapidly wrote a work for the remaining instruments - guitar and voice. The work they performed was Stille Nacht , now better known as Silent Night, which has since been translated into over three hundred languages around the world. Along with a serene performance of Stille Nacht by the Brandenburg Choir, you may hear a rare medieval hymn, a single sublime soprano or the warm sound of Baroque trumpets and sackbutts heralding a bright and very Brandenburg beginning to Christmas.
Noël! Noël!
DECEMBER
BRANDENBURG CHOIR
21
20
AUSTRALIAN BRANDENBURG ORCHESTRA
SEASON 2021
21
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