- Concert lights campus with Christmas joy
Photo by: William Liu Dec. 7, 2010 – Joyful carols rang through the Chapel of the Resurrection during Valparaiso University’s annual Christmas Concert on Dec. 3 and 4, with more than 1,000 students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members gathering each night to celebrate the magic and mystery of the Advent season.
A Northwest Indiana holiday tradition for more than 80 years, audience members and Valpo’s student musicians opened the festive concert with “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.” Ninety minutes later, after Valpo’s choral and instrumental ensembles performed more than a dozen Christmas favorites such as Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker,” the concert concluded with the audience participating in a resounding arrangement of “O Come, All Ye Faithful.”
“All the emotions present during the Christmas season – the celebration of Christ’s birth, the joy of spending time with loved ones, the stillness of a peaceful winter night – are expressed during Valpo’s Christmas Concert,” said Christopher M. Cock, Duesenberg chair in Lutheran music and director of the Valpo Chorale.