Sunday, December 18 3.00pm
Wednesday, December 21 8.00pm
NEC's Jordan Hall

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Add new sparkle and meaning to your family's holiday celebrations as Grant Llewellyn conducts festive choral music for the season and recites—with a Welshman's passion—Dylan Thomas' A Child’s Christmas in Wales.

Grant Llewellyn, conductor

Deck The Hall
There is no rose
HOWELLS: A Spotless Rose
WALTON: All this time
WALTON: King Herod and the cock
WALTON: Make we joy now in this fest
WALTON: What cheer?
IVES:A Christmas Carol
PINKHAM: Sweet Music
ROREM: While all things were in quiet silence
CORNELIUS:The three kings
PRAETORIUS:Lo How a Rose E’er Blooming
THOMSON: O my Deir Hert
SWEELINCK: Hodie Christus natus est

One of Dylan Thomas’ most popular pieces, “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” is a vivid reminiscence of Christmases past that was originally created for radio, then later revised as a prose work. It was first published in 1955, two years after Thomas’ death. Grant Llewellyn, a fellow-Welshman, will read from this wonderful text, which will accompany a selection of Christmas works from the American choral tradition.

For further information:
http://www.bfsmedia.com/MAS/Dylan/Christmas.html
the text of Dylan Thomas’ classic Christmas memoir

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/dylanthomas/bibliography/pages/childs_christmas.shtml
the BBC’s tribute to this perennial classic, with timelines of Thomas’ life and links to other Thomasiana