Christmas Musicals

Many congregations include in their worship life during the Christmas season a musical drama in which many of the children of the congregation participate. The following article describes some recently published musicals for consideration. Planning music for the Christmas season and devising ways to involve children in Christmas worship is always a challenge. Year after year we search for new ways to tell the old story. What many weary children's choir directors and harried church school coordinators aren't aware of is that good, complete programs are readily available. While altogether too many mediocre cantatas have given the genre a bad name, some musical programs do offer quality music suitable for children's voices. These programs are easily produced and flexible enough to accommodate large or small groups and, most important, they tell the Christmas story in a fresh but faithful way. Of the three described below, two would be appropriate as preludes or postludes to a worship se…