our Choir Lucia Performance
One of the big holiday traditions here in Sweden centers around St. Lucia--across the country on December 13th there are hundreds of performances by various choirs, each with a person dressed as Lucia, with a crown of lit candles on her head, wearing the traditional white dress and red belt. The other women in the choir also wear the white dresses and red belts, and everyone in the choir carries a lit candle. Usually there is little to no other light in the room besides the candles the choir carries (and, in the case of Lucia, wears). The performance is usually early in the morning--here at our uni it happens at 07:30, and takes about a half an hour. Despite the early hour the hall is packed with people who come to listen (and drink the traditional glogg and eat pepperkakor and lucia bullar) before they head to work or classes or whatever for the day.
This year someone in the audience with the capability to record video was a friend to one of the choir members, and he put a short video on line which shows our procession in and has excerpts from each of the songs we did. I am posting the link here because I suspect my mom would want to watch, and there is a chance that someone else might be interested.
However, I have no idea if any of you would click the link to watch a student choir singing in the (mostly) dark, so if you would be so kind as to leave a comment to let me know if you did, it would amuse me to find out who (if anyone) does watch it, and if you watch/listen to all 11 minutes, or only glance at part of it). Some of the songs are in Swedish, some in English, and one in Sami, and all have a strong Christmas theme +/- religious symbolism (personally I would like the tradition better without the religious part, but I so love to sing I am willing to sing pretty sounding songs despite the religious trappings).
This year someone in the audience with the capability to record video was a friend to one of the choir members, and he put a short video on line which shows our procession in and has excerpts from each of the songs we did. I am posting the link here because I suspect my mom would want to watch, and there is a chance that someone else might be interested.
However, I have no idea if any of you would click the link to watch a student choir singing in the (mostly) dark, so if you would be so kind as to leave a comment to let me know if you did, it would amuse me to find out who (if anyone) does watch it, and if you watch/listen to all 11 minutes, or only glance at part of it). Some of the songs are in Swedish, some in English, and one in Sami, and all have a strong Christmas theme +/- religious symbolism (personally I would like the tradition better without the religious part, but I so love to sing I am willing to sing pretty sounding songs despite the religious trappings).