The orchestral version of IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER was
specially arranged for a benefit concert by and for the
Jacksonville Symphony players. It premiered in December
2007 in Jacksonville, Florida, followed shortly in a
performance by the Coastal Symphony of Georgia in
Brunswick. It is an arrangement by Edward Lein of his
setting of an 1872 poem by Christina Rossetti
(1830-1894) that depicts the Christmas story.