This is "The Winter's Rose," which is a new musical setting of a text I wrote some years ago for a piece titled "The Winter and the Rose." It springs from one of my favorite images of Christmas- that of Jesus as a beautiful rose blooming in the midst of the winter. The melody for
This is an arrangement I made of the Catalan carol "Salten y Ballen" - "Shepherds and Lasses." I have been told that the original song is not really associated with Christmas at all - but was adapted as a Christmas carol by Elizabeth Posten (most famous for "Jesus Christ the Apple Tree.") I shuffled the
Here is a recording of the Lincoln Chamber Singers performing the exquisite Christmas hymn "Lo, how a Rose e'er Blooming" by Michael Praetorius for the 2019 Christmas Festival "Light & Life to All."
A week ago Saturday, I had the opportunity to experience 'polar opposites' in the world of opera .... two productions that could not have been more drastically different from each other. And spoiler alert: I loved them both .... which only underscores one reason why I love opera so much: because it is an art
