Christmas Eve Candlelight Music Service – 5:00PM

2013 December 22
by DoMC

The Christmas Eve Candlelight Music Service is one of our most beloved traditions at First Unitarian.  The sanctuary, lit by candle and gaslight and decorated with pine trees and boughs, offers a beautiful setting for this timeless service of music and meditation.   

This year’s service will feature a special program of Celtic music.  Our choir and soloists Marielle Murphy, K’idar Miller, and Andrew Cook – Feltz will be heard accompanied by organ, as well as an instrumental ensemble of fiddle, uilleann pipes, flute, guitar, hammered dulcimer, and harp.  We are especially delighted to welcome Jerry O’Sullivan who is widely hailed as America’s premier master of the uilleann pipes, the characteristic national bagpipes of Ireland, and Patrick Mangan, two-time All-Ireland fiddle champion.  The musical selections will include traditional Irish, Scottish, and Welsh carols as well as instrumental airs, jigs, and reels.  The program will also include choral and vocal works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Morton Lauridsen, and Pedro de Cristo.  Rev. Ana Levy-Lyons will offer a homily, “Witness to Miracles” with readings by staff and lay leaders, and, of course, there will be congregational singing of familiar carols. 

The service is at 5:00; come early and bring a friend, as the service is always crowded.  Child-care will be provided in the undercroft. 

 

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