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Lee Hoiby’s The Christmas Tree Available in New Full Orchestration

Nov. 01, 2010

Lee Hoiby’s beloved holiday offering The Christmas Tree is now available for premiere in a new full orchestration. Formerly available only in two versions, for chorus, organ, brass and percussion and for a cappella chorus, The Christmas Tree saw its world premiere on December 12, 2009 by the Cathedral Choral Society led by J. Reilly Lewis at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington D.C. and joins Lee Hoiby’s already impressive catalogue of celebrated choral music. Longtime-Hoiby collaborator Mark Shulgasser comments on the occasion:

The Christmas Tree shows [Hoiby] still in full command of powerful choral sonorities and the handsome, outflung line he loves. Commissioned for the Washington National Cathedral's 2009 seasonal festivities, the carol again takes verses from the 17th-century mystical poet Richard Crashaw, also the source text of Hoiby's 1960 heralded cantata A Hymn of the Nativity. In four minutes the roof is rapturously raised, in the manner of Hoiby's much-performed Hymn to the New Age.

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Lee Hoiby
The Christmas Tree (2009)
for orchestra
2.2.2.bcl.2-2.2.3.1-perc(glsp, cym)-cel.hp-str

also available in versions for:
chorus, organ, brass and percussion
SATB chorus a cappella (ED 30047)-available for sale December 1.
5’

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