On Friday, December 23rd, Performance Today will broadcast the following two VocalEssence selections from their 2011 Welcome Christmas program. Both are contest-winning carols from the annual Welcome Christmas Carol Contest, co-sponsored by VocalEssence and the American Composers Forum.

Listen to the archived program

Robert Sieving: O Stella de Bethlehem (2011)
VocalEssence Chorus & Ensemble Singers
Michael Dayton, English horn
Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis, MN
December 11, 2011
 
James Kallembach: The Yonge Child (2011)
VocalEssence Ensemble Singers
Michael Dayton, English horn
Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis, MN
December 11, 2011

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