Jón Ásgeirsson would have turned 98 that day. He was born in Ísafjörður in 1928 and died on 21 November 2025. He left some ninety songs for solo voice, Maístjarnan among them, which sets a poem by Halldór Laxness, as well as arrangements for choir and the opera Þrymskviða, first staged at Þjóðleikhúsið in 1974. Eight choirs sing in his memory: Karlakórinn Fóstbræður, Háskólakórinn, Kvennakór Reykjavíkur, Skólakór Kársness, Gradualekór Langholtskirkju, Graduale Nobili, Kór Menntaskólans við Hamrahlíð and the chamber choir Huldur. The church publishes neither a work from the programme nor a price.