Tony Award-winner Stephanie J. Block's deep love of Christmas music began as a child with the warm hum and crackle of the Carpenter's "Christmas Portrait" vinyl, Johnny Mathis' "Merry Christmas" LP, and Barbra Streisand's "A Christmas Album." Now, the Broadway star shares her nostalgia for the holiday season with you in a celebration of storytelling with Broadway selections and heart warming holiday tunes.
Jazz Music Calendar
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Join the MetWinds in kicking off your holiday season with a concert featuring your musical holiday favorites. Along with creative arrangements of Christmas and Hanukkah music, this program will feature Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring by J. S. Bach and the classic symphonic band work by Alfred Reed, Russian Christmas Music. John Higgins pays tribute to holiday music made famous from the Broadway stage in his arrangement Christmas On Broadway. This concert will also provide an opportunity for you to participate in a sing-a-long of Warren Barker’s Christmas Serenade. The concert will close in a fun-filled journey of Larry Mactaggart’s arrangement Jingle Bells, complete with cheering crowds and sounds of merriment.
Don’t miss the festive cocktail hour at 6 pm and the amazing desserts afterwards. All proceeds will benefit St. John of Damascus. Tickets may be purchased in advance, online, starting October 1st at www.stjohnd.org/pops or at the door on the night of the concert. They are not available on the MetWinds website.
| An American Christmas | Robert W. Smith |
| Overture to a Winter Festival | James Curnow |
| Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring | J. S. Bach / arr. Alfred Reed |
| Russian Christmas Music | Alfred Reed |
| A Hanukkah Festival | Chris Bernotas |
| Christmas On Broadway | arr. John Higgins |
| Christmas Serenade | Warren Barker |
| Laughing All the Way | Larry Mactaggart |
| Event Date | 12-06-2025 6:00 pm |
| Individual Price | $20 |
| Location | Saint John of Damascus Church |
| Categories | Music, 1--CONCERT--, Band, Holiday |
The quartet, originally called the Four Aims, made their first single for Chess in 1956, and spent seven years on the road and in nightclubs, singing pop, blues, Broadway, but mostly jazz—four-part harmony jazz. When Motown’s Berry Gordy Jr. found out they had hustled a national “Tonight Show” appearance, he signed them without an audition to be the marquee act for the company’s Workshop Jazz label. That proved short-lived, and Stubbs’ powerhouse baritone lead and the exquisite harmonies of Fakir, Benson, and Payton started making one smash after another with the writing-producing trio Holland-Dozier-Holland.
In 1990, with 24 Top 40 pop hits to their credit, the Four Tops were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. Though they would no longer have hits on record, the group continued to be a hit in concert, touring incessantly, a towering testament to the enduring legacy of the Motown Sound they helped shape and define. Following Payton’s death in 1997, the group briefly worked as a trio until Theo Peoples, a former Temptation, was recruited to restore the group to a quartet. When Stubbs subsequently grew ill, Peoples became the lead singer and former Motown artist-producer Ronnie McNeir was enlisted to fill Payton’s spot. In 2005, when Benson died, Payton’s son Roquel replaced him.
| Event Date | 12-06-2025 7:30 pm |
| Individual Price | See Registration |
| Location | Nashua Center for the Arts |
| Categories | Music, Americana, Jazz, 1--CONCERT-- |
| Event Date | 12-06-2025 8:00 pm |
| Individual Price | Tickets from $79 |
| Location | Groton Hill Music Center |
| Categories | Music, Holiday, 1--CONCERT-- |
Zeke Fetrow, Conductor
| Zoltan Kodály | Dances of Galánta |
| Nino Rota | Concerto for Bassoon Richard Svoboda, Bassoon |
| Johannes Brahms | Hungarian Dance No. 5 |
| Aaron Copland | Appalachian Spring |
| Event Date | 12-06-2025 8:00 pm |
| Individual Price | Adult - $25 | Youth (18 and under) - $0 |
| Location | 51 Walden |
| Categories | Music, Orchestra, 1--CONCERT-- |
Holiday POPS!
Featuring Lexington Children’s Chorus under the auspices of Lexington Music School, New World Chorale and special guest, Santa Claus!
Our signature holiday event!
Every year, our Holiday POPS! concerts explore a different facet of this most wonderful time of the year. Celebrate the magic of the holidays with us!
*No Pre-concert talk for Holiday POPS
| Event Date | 12-07-2025 3:00 pm |
| Individual Price | See Registration |
| Location | Cary Hall Lexington MA |
| Categories | Music, Orchestra, 1--CONCERT-- |