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Presented by NCM Fathom and BY Experience
The St. Olaf Christmas Festival, a service of hymns, carols, choral works and orchestral selections, is one of the oldest musical celebrations of Christmas in the United States. More than 12,000 students, alumni and friends of the college attend the four performances given on campus in early December. And now this year — for the first time ever — the St. Olaf Christmas Festival will be simulcast live via satellite to select movie theatres around the country on Sunday, Dec. 2, at 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT from the St. Olaf College campus in Northfield, Minnesota.
The nearly century-old event features more than 500 student musicians who are members of five choirs — the St. Olaf Choir, Viking Chorus, Chapel Choir, Cantorei and Manitou Singers — and the St. Olaf Orchestra, with each group performing individually and as part of a mass ensemble. The event reflects the same convictions that were intended when F. Melius Christiansen, founder of the St. Olaf College Music Department, began the service in 1912.
The St. Olaf Christmas Festival has been listed as one of five significant global holiday events in The New York Times International Datebook, and featured in such publications as TV Guide, The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times.
Tickets on sale now!
Click here for an abbreviated copy of the printed concert program available for download.
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