o magnum mysterium

One of my current joys is playing in a very good concert band that rehearses one evening a week and offers four formal concerts per year (plus four to five informal summer band/ outdoor concerts in parks and on organization or church lawns). Our holiday concert coming up in two weeks will feature nine pieces, four of which are Christmasy. We are playing a concert band arrangement of this lovely piece embedded below, O Magnum Mysterium by Morten Lauridsen -- one of the Christmas-themed pieces. Seraphic Fire performs this really beautifully, and if I do say so, the purely instrumental is quite other worldly as well. Some of the favorites we are also playing include a traditional Light Cavalry Overture arrangement, Themes from Green Bushes for a bit of English folk song, and a fun piece called Danzas Cubanas. Off on a quick visit to see my parents today. Ciao.