The New Western Wind Vocal Ensemble Celebrates Christmas and Chanukkah With “Home For The Holidays” Concert

The Grammy-Nominated Western Wind Vocal Sextet introduces three new members tonight with a “Home For The Holidays-From Darkness To Light” Concert.

Since 1969, Western Wind has devoted itself to the special beauty of /a cappella/ music. The ensemble’s repertoire reveals its diverse background, from Renaissance motets to Fifties rock’n’roll, medieval carols to Duke Ellington, complex works by avant-garde composers to the simplest folk melodies.

This evening’s concert celebrates Christmas and Chanukah with a rich assortment of holiday music. It is the first NYC mainstage
event for the sextet’s “new” ensemble, which includes three new members. The program features the world premiere of “And Yet The Light
Returns” by Gerald Cohen, Robert Dennis’ setting of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Christmas miracle poem “The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver,” and Martha Sullivan’s “Lazarus,” a setting of Emma Lazarus’ “The New Colossus” that is found on the Statue of Liberty. The program also includes Renaissance Hebrew psalm settings by Salamone Rossi;Yiddish, Sephardic and Hebrew Chanukah Songs and Christmas music by César Carrillo, Charles Ives and Francis Poulenc.