Flor de Noche Buena (Flower of Christmas Eve), Euphorbia pulcherrima, Poinsettia. These are at Rockefeller Greenhouse, and the foto was taken on a rare sunny December day.
Our Lady of Guadalupe is 12th December and is celebrated with roses and other flowers. This is part of the decoration of an altar at Our Lady of Lourdes Cleveland. Before sunrise people came to sing mañanitas to Our Lady.
Advent is a time of anticipation and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus. It is followed by the Christmas season. Advent begins on the fourth Sunday prior to 25th December. To-day, was the third Sunday of Advent, Gaudete Sunday. 'Gaudete' means 'rejoice' and is the first word in the Latin introit (entrance antiphon) for the Mass on the day. For those who use an advent wreath, the third candle lit is the rose colored one. [supra: St. Casimir, infra: St. Stanislaus]
Suburban Symphony had a concert, on 9th December in Beachwood, with some sacred music and music touching Advent (and Christmas too). They played Ottorino Respighi's - L'adorazione dei Magi from Trittico Botticiliano, which is based on Veni, Veni Emmanuel (O come, O come Emmanuel), and includes the repeated "Gaude, gaude, Emmanuel (Rejoice, rejoice, Emmanuel)"
City Music had five concerts this week. Supra, they played Stille Nacht (Silent Night) as an encore at St. Stanislaus Cleveland.
To-day, 78 tubas played Christmas songs and carols at Tuba Christmas in Lorain.
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postscriptum: 10pm 17 December 2018
Burning River Brass played consecutive nights at a packed Pilgrim Congregational Cleveland, with over six hundred in the audience each night. Eleven brass instrumentalists, and a percussionist mixed classical music, and Christmas music traditional and with jazz. Respighi's L'adorazione dei Magi was played, a beautiful It came upon a midnight clear on four trombones and a tuba. The Little Drummer Boy was a big surprise, with a little Pink Panther, and an extended and wild drum solo.
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