Your ultimate guide to this year’s Christmas concerts Concordia has been abuzz ever since the October announcement that the annual Christmas concerts will be changing dates and locations. Every year, approximately 450 music students involved in orchestra and choir gather to perform in these dazzling concerts. Although it may appear as if this year will…
“Before the marvel of this Night,” this year’s Christmas concert theme, is sure to marvel audience members with the sights and sounds of hundreds of student musicians. What concert goers will not realize without carefully reading their program is that our own President William Craft is playing a large role in this year’s opening number….
Concordia’s large spring concert, Oratorio, was especially unique this year. Usually, professional soloists are featured, but for the first time in years, the concert of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana was performed entirely by students. Rene Clausen, who conducted the Concordia Orchestra and the 350 member Oratorio choir, explained the basic concept of the concert. “(Oratorio)…