Saint Paul’s Choir School to present Starry Night: Christmas concert
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Saint Paul’s Choir School will present the filmed concert performance Starry Night: Christmas in Harvard Square, featuring The Choir of Men and Boys at Saint Paul’s, streaming in premiere online at 7 p.m. Dec. 19 and features Newton student Eamonn Greiner, grade five.
The performance is conducted by SPCS director of music and choirmaster James Kennerley, with accompaniment by assistant director of music Maks Adach, as well as Kennerley, on Saint Paul’s pipe organ. The performance was filmed by Crowley Digital.
The performance is inspired by Vincent Van Gogh’s painting Starry Night. Fifteen musical selections span perennial Christmas favorites by Johann Sebastian Bach to modern-day compositions of John Rutter, as well as original arrangements by Kennerley and Theodore Marier, SPCS founder.
The Choir of Men and Boys at St. Paul’s in rehearsal, conducted by SPCS Director of Music and Choirmaster James Kennerley, during the filming of “Starry Night: Christmas in Harvard Square.” Pilot photo/courtesy Julia Monaco Photography Three St. Paul’s Choir School students perform during the filming of “Starry Night.”
Pilot photo/courtesy Julia Monaco Photography
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CAMBRIDGE Ordinarily, hundreds of people attend the St. Paul s Choir School s live Christmas performances in the spacious St. Paul Church in Harvard Square. However, since social-distancing restrictions would prevent such an event this year, the school decided to bring its concert to an even wider audience by recording it and making it available to their supporters online.