{"id":9414,"date":"2011-01-14T12:09:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T11:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.proterrasancta.org\/?p=9414"},"modified":"2021-12-22T15:16:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T14:16:55","slug":"a-musical-christmas-huge-success-for-the-magnificats-christmas-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preprod.proterrasancta.org\/en\/a-musical-christmas-huge-success-for-the-magnificats-christmas-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"A Musical Christmas: Huge success for the Magnificat\u2019s Christmas concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>\n<dt><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Few could forget Bethlehem\u2019s Christmas mass of 2010.\u00a0 We began preparations for this night back in September of 2009, working in collaboration with the Academy of the Arts\u2019 Orchestra for Sacred music.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0 The Orchestra had already performed a concert of holy music at the steeple of Milan\u2019s Cathedral and was planning another at Moscow\u2019s \u2018Golden Domes\u2019 Cathedral.\u00a0 \u201cI understand these concerts\u201d, commented Father Armando, who was present at the meeting held by the Friends of the Magnificat Association in Lugano Switzerland, \u201cbut why aren\u2019t we doing more to maintain the presence of this sacred music that we perform in our churches?\u201d\u00a0 Organisers immediately welcomed the proposal for a wonderful musical spectacular to mark Bethlehem\u2019s midnight Mass.\u00a0 Among the organisers were Diego Montrone the orchestra\u2019s director, first chair violinist Alberto Bramani and percussionist and president of Syncre srl Mirko Preatoni, who is very close to Don Luigi Giussani, the founder of Communion and Freedom, who famously \u2018grew up in a house scarce in food but rich with music\u2019.\u00a0 The evening\u2019s musical program included the most beautiful of the Christmas carols and Father Armando Pierucci\u2019s Mass \u201cS.Jacobi, for soprano, choir, assembly, organ and orchestra.<\/span><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p>One of the star performers was Eugenia Shirinians, hailing from the St. Petersburg Conservatory and the 2008 winner of the international \u201cElena Obraztsova\u201d competition for opera singers.\u00a0 With her powerful yet sweet voice, she turned the heads of the 120 celebrants who were looking for the source of this incredible sound, and immediately rendered listeners into a state of devout meditation.<\/p>\n<p>The Magnificat Choir of the Custody of the Holy Land, strengthened by the voices of volunteers from Lombardy and Emilia Romagna, and the Magnificat Yasmeen Choir have always given their absolute all, spurred on by the importance of celebration, the assembly and the presence of the orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>This was a breath of fresh air.\u00a0 Created to share the experience of the most beautiful music of all time, the Academy of the Arts\u2019 Orchestra, which boasts musicians from the 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