According to Tomas Ambrozaitis, the artistic director of "Aukuros", "this program marks the tradition when Klaipėda conductor Arūnas Pečiulis returns to conduct Nijolė Sinkevičiūtė's Christmas Prayer, a work best suited for this period. He has lived and worked for many years in Salzburg, which has a rich musical culture, where he gets ideas for his concert programs.