The Second Twenty-Four Days of Christmas

Ron Di Salvio has taken traditional Christmas carols and embedded them in selections from the finest classical music. These arrangements reflexively inform both the carol and the classical excerpt, infusing them with a nuance that mutually informs each and then takes them both to new levels of expression. Harmonic underpinnings of the carol become realized as if the classical composer had these melodies in mind when they wrote, while Ron’s extrapolations of the classical pieces give expression to the deeper meaning of the word for which the carol was a vehicle. Synthesis becomes transformation, insight. vision.
This music signals the themes of a miraculous birth and faith, and juxtaposes human artistic aspiration with divine inspiration. These arrangements honor the contribution of both the classical and carol composer and then adds something new; the modulation of a new voice encountering this music and its meaning and then transcending it.