melius christiansen, a lutheran immigrant from norway, established the st. olaf music department and student choir. >> what he found was that church music had fallen to a very lamentable state, that the popular music of the day seemed to be eradicating all the traditional music and that so many of the young immigrant norwegian students who he was teaching at st. olaf were forgetting the heritage of great hymns. so he established the choir in many ways to revitalize choral singing in the church, congregational singing in the church. >> christiansen insisted on artistic excellence, and the reputation of the st. olaf choir continued to grow. the choir went on tour and performed in some of the top venues in the nation. according to many scholars, christiansen's work had a profound influence on america's a capella choral tradition. >> he really set a model for choral sound, he changed the whole concept of choral and really taking a program of sacred, unaccompanied choral music and doing it at such a level that it would be accepted in the finest concert halls. >>

. >>> and welcome back a christmas carol is coming to life at this weekend and bop christiansen is ard add agnew twist to an old chas he can but -- adding a new twist to an old class he can but he says -- classic, but he says expect the unexpected. >> it's. >> the concert or theatrical piece like a dramatic concert. >> the baltimore city college high school coral program will be part of the concert backed up by the baltimore symphony orchestra and narrator. tonight and tomorrow night showsbegin at 7:30. >>> a woman from the kongo is a- - we will have more on that in a bit i jumped the gun on you. >> it's friday. >> it is friday and a time for the weekend and weather wise, things looking fairly seasonable but windy out there. >> yes. very windy. that's the story for today. yesterday we had a couple scattered showers move through the area, but temperatures are going to fall through friday and it's going to be cooler. yesterday, we made it up to 61 degrees. but that temperature came in at midnight. so, now we are going to be dealing with the breezes. those winds will be at the northwest a

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