The high school Biltmore trip is a 15-year Christmas tradition for the Academy Chorale. The Biltmore House annual Candlelight Christmas is held in the evenings from mid-November through New Year’s Eve. Several thousand guests tour each evening and enjoy the Biltmore House decked out for Christmas as they listen to musical presentations from various artists throughout the house. Under the direction of Mr. David Rasbach, the Academy Chorale sang at the Biltmore House on Monday, November 14. Ed Rea of the university music faculty accompanied.
Thirty-one students presented a variety of traditional and newly written Christmas songs— including “Candlelight Carol,” “How Great Our Joy,” “Christ is Born!” “Tell Us of the Night,” “Song of Bethlehem,” “Joy to the World,” and “Come to the Light.”
It has become a tradition to stop at McDonald’s near Biltmore House for a milkshake after the concert and then sing Christmas carols all the way back to Greenville.
On Tuesday, November 15, the elementary students serenaded Biltmore visitors. Under the direction of Miss Joanie Pegram, the Vocal Ensemble performed an array of Christmas songs.
Their eighth season of performing at Biltmore included “Jingle Bells”; “Still, Still, Still”; a fun setting of Bach’s Fugue in G Minor called “Cold and Fugue Season”; and some other recent compositions.
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