Home for the Holidays

Preludes pre-concert talk at 7:15pm Saturday.

Schola Cantorum's second snapshot of American choral composers wraps the classic Christmas experience in fresh trimmings.  Endearing favorites, like the ever-popular Alfred Burt Carols, rub elbows with recently minted works by Schola Cantorum member Lauren Bird-Wiser (Three December Songs) and alum Hugh McDevitt (A December Night), and other newer works, including Carl Chevallard's Christmas at Home, Gregory Wait's arrangement of Charles Ives' A Christmas Carol, the stirring O magnum mysterium by Morten Lauridsen and a rollicking romp through Craig Courtney's Musicological Journey Through the Twelve Days of Christmas.  The Oxford Street Brass joins the choir to add a sparkling finishing touch to this picture-perfect Christmas.