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Christmas Festival Concerts
December 13, 14 & 15, 2024
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Join Exultate in celebrating the glory of Christmas. These annual Festival performances promise to be filled with exuberant music that will surely move your heart and soul and usher in the Christmas Season. You will leave the performance filled with joy and the wonder of Christmas. We are sure of it!
Works to be performed include:
Johann Sebastian Bach – Gloria & excerpts (from Cantata 191)
- Johann Sebastian Bach – Jauchzet (from Christmas Oratorio) – sung in English
- Johann Sebastian Bach – Komm, Jesu, Komm (Motet for double Choir)
- Johann Sebastian Bach – Partita for unaccompanied violin
- Antonio Vivaldi – Alleluia from Nulla in mound pax sincera
- Johann Theodore Römhildt – excerpts from Christmas Cantata
- Paul Mealor – Away in a Manger (premiere)
- William Dawson – Mary Had a Baby
- John Rutter – Joy to the World (with audience)
- Anthony White – Love Came Down at Christmas
- Steve Sandberg – A Transylvanian Carol (premiere)
- Elaine Hagenberg – Sussex Carol
- Lowe-Warland-Rossin – Coventry Carol
- Heather Sorenson – Sanctus (from Requiem)
WHY SO MUCH BACH? – Our program includes several of Johann Sebastian Bach’s masterpieces. His joyous music is perfect for Christmas and particularly fitting for Exultate as we prepare to perform at the International Bachfest in Leipzig, Germany. We are thrilled to have been invited to participate in this prestigious event in June, 2025! (More on that to come.)
Come and hear the Exultate choir, full orchestra and soloists perform familiar carols and beautiful new arrangements that will make you smile, fill your heart and move your soul. Get your tickets here:
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Tickets purchased before the weekend of the performances are discounted. Adults – $30; Seniors (65+) – $25; Under 30 – $10; Premium Seating – add $5 to your ticket.
Christmas Festival Soloists
The solo voices in the Bach and Römhildt works are exquisite. Betsie Feldkamp, soprano and Nathan Romportl, tenor will surely move your soul.
2024 CHRISTMAS CONCERT VENUES: (click address for map)
Friday, December 13, 2024 – 7:00 p.m.
Normandale Lutheran Church
6100 Normandale Road, Edina
Saturday, December 14, 2024 – 7:00 p.m.
St. Paul United Church of Christ
900 Summit Avenue, St. Paul
Sunday, December 15, 2024 – 3:00 p.m.
Lake Nokomis Lutheran Church
5011 31st Avenue South, Minneapolis