O Laetissimum Nuntium has two muses: ralph vaughan williams' Fantasia on Christmas Carols, which i arranged for the 2008 doane college christmas festival and some other song i found when i was digging through our school's music library.
i came across the piece, a combined tune for band and choir, and looked it over but wasn't very impressed. i thought to my humble self, "i can do better than that!" so i set out to write this one. Fantasia on Christmas Carols is a fantastic piece of music, but i had to take into consideration my personnel (high school students) and my timeline (roughly a month and a half), so i tried to use the Fantasia as my inspiration while still using original ideas. the result is this song, which is arranged for choir and concert band.