Still Searching for Holiday Music?
Contributing Editor: Jonathan Campbell
Can you hear the sound of sleigh bells, carolers, and holiday cheer? YOU CAN’T?!?! Then we encourage you on this September night to unthaw last year’s eggnog and finish your holiday program with something from under Graphite’s Christmas Tree.
A poetic and musical celebration of shared traditions, weaving the tapestry of cultures and connections in the spirit of Christmas.
A beautiful secular song – the perfect way to end a year.
The familiar tune you know except with mixed meter, solos, and world percussion.
Nobis est natus hodieAnonymous, Codex Speciálník (ca. 1500) ed. Jordan Sramek and Daniel Mahraun
SSA a cappella
Difficulty:
Crystalline polyphony from Renaissance Bohemia for treble voices. From Rose Publications‘ “Slavic Wonders” series.
An ode not only to the gift of birth but the fragility of life.
A Fire in WinterJocelyn Hagen
SATB divisi choir, 4 soprano soloists, wind ensemble, and string orchestra
Difficulty:
An elegant and joyful welcome to the season of Christmas.
When the Song of the Angels Is StilledElizabeth Alexander
Available for SATB and flute, SATB a cappella, TTBB a cappella, and SSAA a cappella.
Difficulty:
A rhythmic and relevant best-seller about the true “work of Christmas.”
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Our Contributing Editor
Jonathan Campbell, BA, MSM, DMA, currently serves as Director of Music at Zion Lutheran Church, Anoka, MN., and is a Contributing Editor for Graphite Publishing. His music publishers include Augsburg Fortress, Concordia, Morningstar, GIA, Sacred Music Press, and Falls House. He won first prize in the Morningside Choral Composition Contest and was also awarded a Faith Partner’s Residency with the American Composer’s Forum. Jonathan has served many churches, conducted the Chorale of the Honors Choirs S.E. MN for eight years, and has served on the faculties of Winona State University, Augsburg University, and Pomona College.
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