A French Baroque Christmas (Dec 06)
- Church of St. Mark
- Nov 22
- 2 min read
Updated: Dec 2
7:10 PM | The Church (2001 Dayton Ave)
Have yourself A French Baroque Christmas with La Grande Bande!
Tickets required!
7:10 - Organ Prelude
7:30 PM - Concert Performance
$35 (Sec A), $25 (Sec B), $15 (Sec C/Students)
Use discount StMarks1225 to save 15%
Tickets can be obtained at lagrandebande.org/tickets or by phone at 507-237-6539
About La Grande Bande:
La Grande Bande was founded by Dr. Michael Thomas Asmus in 2011, with the goal of bringing high-quality arts programming to his hometown rural communities. Since 2019, La Grande Bande has offered a full season of programming with an average of five concert programs per year. In 2022 La Grande Bande began offering a second performance of its programming in the Twin Cities and beyond.
La Grande Bande strives to present innovative, unique, and inspiring musical programs right in the heart of southern-Minnesota farm country. With performances called “warm and sensitive” by the Star Tribune, we seek to reintroduce classical music to our communities using the instruments and techniques that the first audiences might have heard. LGB is composed of musicians from across the United States and from around the world who are specialists in the field of Early Music—music written between c. 1600-1800—and who play on historical instruments and sing in an historical manner.
About A French Baroque Christmas:
with the Norseland Youth Choir
"A Christmas tradition centuries in the making"
Experience the beauty and joy of the Christmas season with a selection of works written for Christmas by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. The concert centers on Charpentier’s Pastorale sur la Naissance (“Pastoral on the birth of Christ”), one of the most captivating and imaginative examples of sacred French-language Baroque drama. Charpentier’s In nativitatem explores the experience the shepherds might have that fateful day.
From shepherds and recorders to famous French noëls you can sing with us, you’ll be part of the newest Christmas tradition in the region.
An extended organ prelude begins at approximately 7:10pm