An annual favorite, the Prelude to Christmas concert is a wonderful way to kick off the Christmas concert season! This year's theme is "O Great Mystery,” focusing on the perplexing message that the King of Glory comes as a helpless baby to bring salvation. This concert will feature three settings of “O Magnum Mysterium” (Tomás Luis de Victoria, Francis Poulenc, Morten Lauridsen), an ancient text, which conveys this extraordinary message. 

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Other highlights will include several European Christmas carols such as “Ding! Dong! Merrily on High” and “God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen,” a rhythmic rendition of “Comfort, Comfort All My People” with organ and conga and audience participation, a new a cappella setting of “The Holly and the Ivy” in the style of Carl Orff, two jazzy carol settings, and a brand new setting of “Away in a Manger” using an alternate text written by Phil Wickham (“Forever Amen”).

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Please join us for an afternoon of Advent and Christmas joy! A freewill offering will be taken to support the ongoing ministry of the Chorale. 

 

Sunday, December 1 at 2:00 p.m.

Salem Lutheran Church

6840 N 107th St, Milwaukee, WI 53224

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