Most of us have grown up on a Christmas song or two. Songs that tell the Christmas story.The Christmas season is approaching with decorations and the Christmas trees with surprise gifts.
It is the time for unpacking the special gifts year after year and finding just the right place for them on the tree.Time for homemade cookies as well. Well, Christmas is all about giving. But then it all started somewhere...someone gave... and we received...so that we may give...”
Choir Glorious presents ‘..and the Gift goes on...’, a concert which weaves the story for creation and man’s fall, down through the coming of the Promised One, to be the hope and vision of a new world. The concert is to be staged at Dr Ambedkar Bhavan, Miller’s Road on Dec 8 and 9 at 6.30 pm. Glorious is a gospel youth music team of 85 people dedicating its efforts towards presenting concerts and performances with a difference.
They have been in existence for the last 19 Christmases and have been presented over 425 events all over the country. The fields that they have been involved with include music, theatre, dance and drama. A story that has transformed lives, restored relationships, healed hurts, mended marriages and brought hope to hopeless hearts.
Glorious is today not merely a trend-setting choir, but a way of live to the hundreds who have been part of its family in different ways. It has its binding centre, a leagacy to of love and second chances with which it seeks to reach out and minister to a discordant world crying out in despair.
The first half of the programme will be the Christmas musical Cantata “...and the Gift goes on...” featuring the singing Christmas tree, conceptualised and scripted by Esther Chandy.
The second half is a tapestry of Christmas celebration. portraits of old carol favourites, Journey through the ages with carol styles, rhythms of India in different languages of hope and joy.
The soloists include Tara Mathew, Ken Henson, Salome Rao, Leena Sylvester, Sandra Oberoi, Sandra David, Deepa Jacob, Suchita Raju, Thomas John, Ashish John, Mark Rowlands and Sebastian Reddy.
The instrumentalists are Mark Rowlands on the guitar, Lawrence G on piano and key boards, Ashish John on the drums, Manuel Pravin on the bass guitar and Abigail Thomas on the violin.
A special feature of this year’s Christmas celebration will be Glorious Moves, a group of over 30 inter-denominational youngsters getting together to worship through dance forms. Under the direction of Sylvester and Dominic, this group is dedicated to perfecting the right moves, the right steps and the right actions.
One can be part of the19th glorious Christmas concerts to kindle the joy of the season.
Tickets are priced at Rs 250, Rs 100 and Rs 49 and available at ELS, Super Market, Olive Branch, Kairali, Pauline Books, Grace Gift Centre, OM books, Wind Chimes. Contact 25484004, 9243109701. More details on gloriousmusic@gmail.com, www.gloriousmusic.org.
