ADVENT CALENDAR – DAY 13
If Christmas acts as a beacon against the shortest day, then it shines most brightly for the young.
Three local youth choirs feature prominently on this weekend’s concerts, as the Princeton High School Choir joins the Princeton Symphony Orchestra at Richardson Auditorium, tomorrow at 4 p.m.; the Princeton Girlchoir joins the New Jersey Capital Philharmonic Orchestra at the Trenton War Memorial, Sunday at 3 p.m.; and the The American Boychoir holds its own, again at Richardson, Sunday at 4 p.m.
Read more about it in my article in today’s Trenton Times:
http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2014/12/classical_music_youth_choirs_t.html
Here’s the American Boychoir from 1988, performing with Jessye Norman, in Donald Fraser’s “This Christmastide”:
The choir led by its current music director, Fernando Malvar-Ruiz:
And in “Silent Night”: