Tom Strini reports in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on last night's Waverly Consort performance of The Christmas Story at St. Josaphat Basilica, part of this year's Early Music Now series.
Before they began, the lights in the Basilica were slowly turned off, leaving the only sources of light the candles of the Advent wreath and the blue vigil lamps at the Marian shrine. They began singing in the darkness, then processing around the church, and then back to the just before the sanctuary. They continued without interruption for almost ninety minutes, until recessing as all the lights were again extinguished, save those for the altar under its baldacchino.
We'd heard an EMN Christmas concert at the Basilica before but that was in part about the merriness of Christmas; last night's performance was only about its holiness.
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