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monmouth4

(10,359 posts) Thu Dec 25, 2014, 11:02 AM Dec 2014

My PBS is showing the St. Olaf's choir from Norway...Beautiful...n/t

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My PBS is showing the St. Olaf's choir from Norway...Beautiful...n/t (Original Post) monmouth4 Dec 2014 OP

I was watching it last night, too. It really was wonderful. mnhtnbb Dec 2014 #1

I think the choir is from St. Olafs College in Minnesota. kwassa Dec 2014 #2

St. Olaf College is in Northfield, MN, about 40 miles south of Minneapolis. The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2014 #3

Do they like warm hugs? Orrex Dec 2014 #4

mnhtnbb

(32,433 posts)

1. I was watching it last night, too. It really was wonderful.

Reply to monmouth4 (Original post)

Thu Dec 25, 2014, 12:11 PM

Dec 2014

kwassa

(23,340 posts)

2. I think the choir is from St. Olafs College in Minnesota.

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Fri Dec 26, 2014, 12:13 PM

Dec 2014

Probably much Norwegian ancestry in that group, but they are American as apple pie.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(124,245 posts)

3. St. Olaf College is in Northfield, MN, about 40 miles south of Minneapolis.

Reply to kwassa (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 26, 2014, 12:17 PM

Dec 2014

It's a very good private liberal arts college with a first-rate music program. And this being Minnesota, the demographic is significantly Scandinavian.

Orrex

(65,018 posts)

4. Do they like warm hugs?

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Fri Dec 26, 2014, 03:03 PM

Dec 2014

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