Aliyah will be joining the professional choral ensemble Kinnara for their Christmas concert. Below are Kinnara’s notes regarding the concert.

Eric Whitacre first wrote this music for Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. When he went to publish it, the Frost estate refused permission and the setting was pulled. Rather than lose the music, Whitacre asked the poet Charles Anthony Silvestri to write new words to fit it. The result was Sleep, now one of the most performed choral works in the world. The original went mostly unsung for nearly two decades, until Frost's poem entered the public domain in 2019.

This year the original Frost setting sits at the heart of Christmas with Kinnara, an evening that moves from winter nights and falling snow into the Christmas story itself. Poems by Jane Kenyon, Wallace Stevens, and Robert Hayden fall between music spanning nine centuries, from Hildegard von Bingen to Reena Esmail. There will be hymns to sing together, and at the end, as there should be, Silent Night.

Tickets can be found at this link: https://givebutter.com/atlanta-christmas-with-kinnara-cqya32