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Today it's 13 December, and as usual every year, you can see and hear Lucia being celebrated, at schools, with visits to hospitals, and retirement homes, and perhaps the children wake up their parents with coffee and 'luciabulle' (St Lucy buns), and many Nobel Price laureates have got an early visit of a woman in white and with candles on her head, with her maidens.
Swedish tv has broadcasted "Luciamorgon från Visby", from the island of Gotland, with the Lucia, and the youth choir from the Visby Cathedral, and musicians, as well as the childrens' choir, performing in two of the old church ruins in Visby, Sankta Katarina, and Helge And (Sains Catherine and the Holy Spirit). The singing, and the music, is wonderful, and the childrens' choir so exuberant in their singing. The songs are in Swedish, but there are two in English, as well as one sung in the local Gotlandic dialect.
The panorama shown of the medieval Old Town of Visby is magnificent, when the dawn is on its way, and it gets lighter and lighter, as Lucia has always been a celebration of light, the night of 13 December was said to be the longest one in the old Julian calendar. For me, the streets, the church ruins, the Cathedral, and the houses are so familiar, as I lived in Visby for ten years, the 1990s.
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Swedish tv has broadcasted "Luciamorgon från Visby", from the island of Gotland, with the Lucia, and the youth choir from the Visby Cathedral, and musicians, as well as the childrens' choir, performing in two of the old church ruins in Visby, Sankta Katarina, and Helge And (Sains Catherine and the Holy Spirit). The singing, and the music, is wonderful, and the childrens' choir so exuberant in their singing. The songs are in Swedish, but there are two in English, as well as one sung in the local Gotlandic dialect.
The panorama shown of the medieval Old Town of Visby is magnificent, when the dawn is on its way, and it gets lighter and lighter, as Lucia has always been a celebration of light, the night of 13 December was said to be the longest one in the old Julian calendar. For me, the streets, the church ruins, the Cathedral, and the houses are so familiar, as I lived in Visby for ten years, the 1990s.
I hope this will work, choose "Spela utan att logga in", and then "Spela senaste":
Luciamorgon från Visby
Innanför murarna i ett vintrigt Visby sprider årets Lucia stämning och värme med sina körer från Sankta Maria Ungdomskör, Voices of Hope och Gotlands Gosskör. I St Karins och Helge Ands ruiner ljuder julsångerna och vi får också njuta av flera solister, Gotlands Blåsarkvintett samt en barnkör i...
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