Poster Christmas at Luther 2025
Christmas at Luther 2025
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Christmas at Luther: 'Seeking Refuge for a Weary World'

Christmas at Luther

Each December, the Center for Faith and Life at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, rings out with the sacred and the exuberant: the sounds of the Christmas season. Enjoy the 2024 program, Seeking Refuge for a Weary World.

Playlist

  • Elaine Hagenberg: O Come, Emmanuel (Orchestration by Jeremy Bankson)

  • George Frideric Handel: “Soprano Recitatives” and “Glory to God” from Messiah

  • Traditional arr. Andrea Ramsey: “Come and I Will Sing You”

  • Traditional arr. Bernat Vivancos: “Les Anges Dans nos Campagnes”

  • Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse arr. F. Melius Christiansen: “O Day Full of Grace”

  • René Clausen: “All That Hath Life and Breath Praise Ye the Lord!”

  • Traditional arr. Ruth Elaine Schram: “I Wonder as I Wander”

  • Spiritual arr. Josephine Poelinitz: “City Called Heaven”

  • Traditional arr. Luther College Jazz Combo: O Come, All Ye Faithful

  • Come and Go to That Land arr. Brandon Waddles: Come and Go to That Land

  • James Deignan: “Refugee” (Text by Malcolm Guite)

  • Traditional arr. Dan Forrest: O Little Town of Bethlehem

  • Marques Garrett, Samuel Carlton, Dan Forrest: Ring Out, Ye Bells! (Orchestration by Peppie Calvar)

Programming is supported by Ebenezer and the Guthrie Theater.

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