 The early work remains popular with choral societies, and is sometimes paired with his longer Christmas work "Hodie" of 1954.There is also a version of the "Fantasia" which replaces the orchestra with strings and organ.A purely orchestral version, in which the solo vocal and choral parts were 'cued in' on the orchestral instruments, was performed in Studio 8H, New York, on 19 December 1943 by the NBC Symphony conducted by Leopold Stokowski.