The Eau Claire Memorial Madrigals under the direction of Aurora Kranjnikconde brought us into the Holidays with their acapella Christmas music at our Dec 4 meeting. This was their 16th year entertaining groups at Christmas.
The 13 singers sporting period costumes with women in bonnets, muffs and long dresses and men wearing tails and top hats from the period sang a variety of original and new arrangements of Christmas songs including:
- “We’ve Been Awhile Awandering”
- “Winter Wonderland”,
- “I’ll be Home for Christmas” (sung by Bing Crosby to encourage families missing their soldiers during World War II)
- An updated arrangement of “Deck the Hall”
- A Ukranian carol called “Carol of the Bells”
- “The Holly and the Ivy” from the1700’s
- A humorous medley of the “12 Days of Christmas”
- “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”-complete with traditional English Figgy Pudding,
- And both “Silent Night” and “Stille Nacht”, the popular German carol.