The Guiding Light Church choir provided a gospel background.
The Lavender Light Gospel Choir will also perform.
Back at the monastery we went from the light-filled choir rooms to the dank 18th-century cellar.
The congregation included Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg who extinguished one of the four large candles lighting the choir, Labour leader Ed Miliband, the Catholic Cardinel Vincent Nichols who led a prayer, defence secretary Michael Fallon, Mayor of London Boris Johnson, and a German woman bishop, Petra Bosse-Hube, who read a prayer for peace in German.
Although the production is kinetically staged (there's a Vegas-y kick to D.M. Wood's lighting), "Kansas City Choir Boy" is ultimately as ephemeral as someone else's dream.
FESTIVAL OF CHOIRS Sunday at 3 p.m., a concert to celebrate the Festival of Lights, with choirs from around the city at Congregation Rodeph Sholom of Manhattan.
Texas Tech hosts the annual Carol of Lights, where choirs sing classic holiday songs illuminated by 25,000 holiday lights on the Spanish-Renaissance style buildings.
DOBBS FERRY "Into the Light," Angelica chamber choir.
These productions employed sound (even an offstage choir), light, moving structures, and human action, but this latter was purely functional and had no narrative or interactive significance.
Adding to the seasonally-appropriate light spectacle, a choir will be performing Johann Sebastian Bach (arranged by Knut Nystedt and directed by Franck-Emmanuel Comte) with accompanying synth provided by Robert Henke, a German artist widely recognized in the electronic music scene for his work with Monolake.
