{"id":5095,"date":"2009-12-07T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=5095"},"modified":"2009-11-25T10:27:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T16:27:09","slug":"behold-a-star-by-the-nova-singers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/behold-a-star-by-the-nova-singers\/","title":{"rendered":"Behold a Star by the Nova Singers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>The Christmas\/End-of-Winter holiday season is a wonderful time of year but sometimes it&#8217;s easy to get lost in the chaos and endless to-do lists.\u00a0 The librarians here at the Davenport Library Info Cafe blog offer some reasons for making time to stop and make the season &#8220;merry and bright&#8221; with their favorite holiday movies and books.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|639213\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5148\" title=\"beholdastar\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/beholdastar.jpg?resize=213%2C211&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"beholdastar\" width=\"213\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/beholdastar.jpg?w=213&amp;ssl=1 213w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/beholdastar.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ll get things started with my favorite Christmas music. Firmly rooted in tradition (there&#8217;s no &#8220;Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer&#8221; here!) but with a fresh and modern approach, the Quad City-area-based <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/deptorg.knox.edu\/novasingers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nova Singers<\/a><\/strong> offer some of the most beautiful music of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Nova Singers is a 20-voice ensemble with a nationwide reputation and are known for their creative song choices and virtuoso performances. They&#8217;ve produced six recordings, three of which are made up of Christmas music. All of them are beautiful but<em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|639213\" target=\"_blank\"> Behold a Star<\/a><\/strong><\/em> is my favorite partly for the Nova Singer&#8217;s version of\u00a0 &#8220;The 12 Days of Christmas&#8221; (you can tell they&#8217;re having a lot of fun with this) and partly because of the inclusion of &#8220;A Shoot Shall Come Forth&#8221; a gorgeous and unusual carol that speaks of renewal and peace and promise, exactly what the Christmas season is about.<\/p>\n<p>The best part is that you can see the Nova Singers perform right here &#8211; they put on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/deptorg.knox.edu\/novasingers\/concerts.html\" target=\"_blank\">8 concerts a year<\/a><\/strong>, divided between Galesburg and the Quad Cities. Their Christmas concerts this year will be held December 18 and 19. Be sure to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/deptorg.knox.edu\/novasingers\/concerts.html\" target=\"_blank\">check their website<\/a><\/strong> for times and locations. Then treat yourself and go &#8211; you&#8217;ll be glad you did!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christmas\/End-of-Winter holiday season is a wonderful time of year but sometimes it&#8217;s easy to get lost in the chaos and endless to-do lists.\u00a0 The librarians here at the Davenport Library Info Cafe blog offer some reasons for making time to stop and make the season &#8220;merry and bright&#8221; with<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/behold-a-star-by-the-nova-singers\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[927,453,351,928,3253],"class_list":["post-5095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-staff-picks","tag-carols","tag-celebration","tag-christmas","tag-concerts","tag-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1kb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5095"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5153,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095\/revisions\/5153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}