St. Olaf Christmas Festival

December 6, 2008
Topic: Resources

St Olaf Christmas 2008Here’s a last minute reminder for you:

Minnesota Public Radio will present a live broadcast — on the air and streamed online — of the St. Olaf Christmas Festival, “My Spirit Sings of Wondrous Things,” Sunday, Dec. 7, beginning at 3:30 p.m (Central Time). MPR will present an encore broadcast Dec. 25 from 8 to 10 p.m.

Listening to the St. Olaf Christmas Festival has become an annual tradition for me.  Here’s a snippet of one of my favorite pieces (Glories Ring) from the 2007 Christmas Festival.  I had it saved on my TIVO for months until someone accidentally deleted it.  What can I say?  I like to play and listen to handbells.

The first clip is the video from the 2007 PBS special, but the sound is quieter.  The second clip is audio only, but a bit louder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPkT-nhqC1Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0pFGLm53-M

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  1. Chris
    December 18, 2008 at 8:57 pm

    I found out that American Public Media (the distributor of the annual radio program) has archives of the last few years available for online streaming. If you have a spare hour or so, you can listen to some fine choral and instrumental music.

    http://americanpublicmedia.publicradio.org/programs/st_olaf_xmas/

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