Christmas concert: Santa Lucia

Dear L,

Just got home from a Christmas concert, which celebrated the coming of Santa Lucia day (which is tomorrow, the 13th).

It. was. awesome.

To begin the concert, all of the lights were turned off.  It was dark as pitch inside the church.  The organist pounded out melancholic, terrible chords (chords? or random dissonant keys?) that were so loud and satanic I felt my fight-or-flight instincts fire up, as a chorus of vocalists scattered throughout the black shrieked eerie harmonies and the young girl chosen as Lucia spun across the room afire with burning candles in her hair between descending, unlit chandeliers.  Absolutely awing.

Don't let this picture fool you.  There are no saffron buns or glögg.  Just ancient rituals, fire, and terror.

Would love to take you to one sometime.

Love,
D