2:00pm Sunday, December 22
Holy Rosary Catholic Church, Bozeman

In winter's house there's a child
asleep in a dream of light that grows
out of the dark — Jane Draycott

Montana's professional chamber choir Roots in the Sky presents a wintery reflection on the Nativity, childhood, and parent-child relationships.

PROGRAM:

• Seek him that maketh the seven stars by Jonathan Dove
• Winter’s Vow by Juhi Bansal
• In Winter’s House by Joanna Marsh
• Drop Down, Ye Heavens by Anna Lapwood
• Visions of a Child (A Pueblo Lullaby) by Jerod Impichchaaha’ Tate
• Seinte Mari moder milde by James MacMillan
• Mass Transmission by Mason Bates

Inspired by Richard Blanco's poem "Cloud Anthem", the 2024-25 season of Roots in the Sky considers our common origins, our choices, and the opportunity for us to soften our hard edges and to be like clouds In One Single Sky.

We can die valiant as rainbows,
and hold light in our lucid bodies.
We can decide to move boundlessly, without
creed or desire, sharing a kingdom with no king,
a city with no walls, a country with no name,
a nation without any borders or claim. Until
we abide as one together in one single sky.

— Richard Blanco, in Boundaries, Two Ponds Press, 2017

Concert artwork: Vinternatt i fjellene (1914) by Harald Sohlberg.