Good evening, everyone.
We would like to welcome you on our Christmas performance.
And we're not starting this performance in a Christmas way.
Who knows this song, that we just played?
This is the song that you can very often hear on the radio,
And such songs are the songs that we usually sing.
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For those who don't know us yet, we are an amatour teenage choir.
And for the beginning, we would like to show you the things we usually do on rehearsals.
The songs that we practice.
So the first part is going to be more like a concert,
And then the second part will be something that we usually would call "Nativity play" (jasełka).
But this is going to be a very unusual Nativity play.
Because we used the texts from the songs that we usually sing
to ilustrate something using these texts.
I'm going to talk more about this later
We've got songs that we treat more "seriously"
Like the one we've just played
But we also have some funny songs that we take with a pinch of salt
Because we can't be serious all the time
Maybe some of you will recognise this song
This is the kind of a song that once you hear it, you can't get it out of your head.
This song is more like a joke.
Thank you very much, these are the songs we work on on our daily basis
We have rehearsals once a week, and we have so much fun.
We learn singing, and playing all these instruments that you can see here.
But this year we thought that the songs that we sing usually have a very nice lyrics.
The lyrics are interesting in various ways
I know that here in Poland it really depends,
Some of us do understand the lyrics right away, some others understand it only when they read it
And others find it difficult because of the language barrier.
But we thought that we want to combine all of this
And in this year's Christmas performance we would like you to be involved in this world of lyrics
The lyrics that we hear every day
And use the lyrics to illustrate not only the story of the birth of Christ
Because when we talked to one another we realised that sometimes we don't really know how and why it all happened.
So that's why this performance's title is "What's this fuss about?" (Skąd to zamieszanie?)
And we hope that by using our songs we will be able to show you what's this all about
And during the performance, please pay attention to the screen
There will be the lyrics that we're gonna sing in English
And on the right there will be Polish translation
This will be a free translation, it's not supposed to be the same number of syllables and stuff
It's supposed to be understandable
And the lyrics really match our story
The part of this story we are witnessing now, during Christmas
So I encourage you to enter the lyrical level
Here on the stage some things will be happening, but not much
So please focus on the text and the message, and think what it is all about.
In the beginning, God created the world
God created planets.
God created plants
God created animals
Finally, God created the human.
He created human as a man and a woman.
The best of His creations
In His image and likeness.
People had everything they needed to live happily.
God has been visiting them personally in the Eden Garden.
They did not know sadness, hunger, cold and death.
They only had one order.
Not to eat the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden.
The tree of knowledge of good and evil.
It was all beautiful, until Satan appeared.
The fallen angel who rebelled against God.
Before the creation of the world, he stated that he would put his throne higher than God's throne.
He lied to people, telling them that God wasn't telling them all the truth.
And that they can be just like Him.
He misrepresented God's words and they listened to them.
The first sin: disobedience.
Along with the Sin, the Death appears on stage.
Since then, the people's life has not been the same anymore.
They have been banished from the Garden.
Hard work, pain, and death.
God, because he is just, had to react on this disobedience.
He said to the man:
"You will be working hard, and it will never be enough!"
He said to the woman:
"You will be giving birth in pain!"
To the Snake he said:
"In a time, the One will come and crush your head"
"He will defeat you once and for all."
Hard work, pain, and death.
And also: pride, lie, jealousy, selfishness.
People drifted away from God.
and from the life that He had had for them.
We try to fight alone, in many ways.
We try to be strong.
And fulfill expactations, and be successful.
To prove that we can.
But there's a fire inside of us that burns our bones and our hearts.
Because we are never good enough.
There must be a solution.
Because life is in blood
God gave people a temporary solution.
Because of their disobediance, people deserve to die. To shed their blood.
God let them to make sacrifices of animals instead, but He treated it as a temporary remedy.
But Sin is so real, that someone has to die for it.
This system worked, but not really.
Still, once people were close, and once far from God.
God was talking to them through prophets, he was warning them, calling them back to the life he had for them,
But often people didn't listen to Him at all.
Something more was needed.
God never gave up in his efforts to call the people he loved so much back to Him.
God has spoken through the prophets: "I will send you a Saviour"
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