Distler/ Thomanerchor Leipzig/ Rotzsch - Die Weihnachtsgeschichte AEC Video Faithful to the urgency and

Faithful to the urgency and brutality of the score

Rumi spent most of his life in Konya

Phil Thornton

Owing a debt to such films as The Evil Dead

Distler/ Thomanerchor Leipzig/ Rotzsch - Die Weihnachtsgeschichte AEC Video Faithful to the urgency andHugo Distler was one of the most important composers of choral music in the first half of the 20th century. His music reaches back to the great German polyphonists like Schutz, imbuing it with polymodal and polyrythmic elements, creating a unique, introverted, ascetic but deeply felt language that touches the heart. His personal troubles and the repression of his music by the Nazis that thought it 'degenerate,' led to his suicide in 1942. This