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2011 Christmas Revels
Leonardo and the Renaissance
In Celebration of the Winter Solstice

This year's Christmas Revels has finished its run! It was set in the Italian Renaissance, an age when science, art, and music experienced a magnificent rebirth. We celebrated in Leonardo da Vinci's workshop at the shortest day of the year, with a delightful feast of Renaissance music and dance.

Buon Natale!

Congratulations to the winner of our drawing for a free Amazon Kindle. The lucky winner is Brenda Bruening from Boulder, whose name was randomly picked from our stack of forms filled out by audience members. Thanks all for attending and participating!

The Shortest Day

So the Shortest Day came, and the year died,
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
They burned beseeching fires all night long
To keep the year alive.
And when the new year's sunshine blazed awake
They shouted, revelling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
Echoing behind us—listen!
All the long echoes sing the same delight
This Shortest Day,
As promise wakens in the sleeping land:
They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends, and hope for peace.
And now so do we, here, now, This year and every year.

Welcome Yule!

2011 show program

The show program notes contain historical and cultural information about the various numbers in the performance. Click here to download it!

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