Hark the carols!
View(s):It’s the season to be jolly….you know where we’re going with this. The Christmas season has begun which can only mean one thing-carols, carols everywhere! Like it or not, the carols will follow you wherever you go for the next month so if you can’t beat them-join them. Here’s a rundown on three of the many carol services and Christmas shows that will happen this season. In addition, almost every major church will have their own service, so if you’re unable to make it for these make sure you catch your local church’s session of festive music. After all, there’s nothing like music to herald in the Christmas season.
S. Thomas’ College, Mount Lavinia
Annual carol service; today December 7, School Chapel,
The Victoria Chorale
6 p.m. onwards
This is a tradition over 60 years in the making, and it is customary for the congregation to assemble at the Chapel of the Transfiguration the first Sunday of December for a service that is both comfortingly familiar and delightfully festive. The Thomian choir will assemble to deliver a service that will blend the traditional composers with the modern, says this year’s organisers. The event is open to anyone-entrance is free.
Soul Sounds
Moods of Christmas; December 21, 7.30 p.m. Cinnamon Grand
Soul Sounds will present two Christmassy shows this year; their concert on the 14th with the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka and the Old Joes Choir, and their final 10th anniversary show for the year on the 21st titled ‘Moods of Christmas’.
The STC chapel
Soul Sounds
The concert on the 14th will be a family Christmas show which will feature both Soul Sounds and the Old Joes Choir conducted by Dushyanti Perera and accompanied by the Symphony Orchestra. Expect numbers like ‘Christmas Joy’, ‘Christmas Once Again’ and ‘Angels We Have Heard on High’ interspersed with the more intricate choral pieces.
The main concert on the 21st at 7.30 p.m.- Moods of Christmas- will take the choir back to their very beginnings in 2004, when their first concert, also titled Moods of Christmas, officially launched a new identity for the group. This year’s show will happen at the Cinnamon Grand and tickets are available at the hotel.
Victoria Chorale
Victoria Chorale in Sri Lanka; December 10, Lionel Wendt, 8 p.m.
For an international touch on your Christmas, catch the Victoria Chorale on December 10, at the Lionel Wendt. The choir from Singapore was founded in 1993 and has since performed at many prestigious venues around the world. They will visit Sri Lanka for three days before heading back to Singapore for the official Christmas season.
The first half of the show will be dedicated entirely to Christmas tunes, and the concert will also feature the De Lanerolle Brothers. Tickets for the show, presented by Harpo’s Cafes and backed by Trinity College London, are priced at Rs. 1500, 1000 and 500 and are available at the venue, Commons Café and Park Street Mews. All proceeds will be directed to the organ fund of the Cathedral of the Christ the Living Saviour.