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CLASSICAL MUSIC
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The Worcester Organ Performance Series: A Festive Performance of Holiday Music
Celebrate the season of light with well-known classics and songs of the season. Audience sing-alongs, silent film accompaniment, and other delights await!
Canadian Brass
The Kings of Brass are ready to make the holiday season merry and bright with Making Spirits Bright. This quintet never fails to delight with their winning combination of fabulous sound, engaging wit, popular programming, and top-notch showmanship. Making Spirits Bright includes original arrangements and signature takes on beloved holiday classics such as "'ll Be Home for Christmas," "Charlie Brown Christmas," "Silver Bells, "Songs of Hanukkah," and "Jingle Bell Rock" The spirit and sparkle of Canadian Brass has earned them a loyal legion of fans worldwide. "Nothing proclaims celebration and festivity like the sound of brass instruments. And if those instruments are played by Canadian Brass, there is even greater cause for celebration" (Toronto Star).
Arcadia Players - A German Holiday: Works for Advent and Christmas by Bach and Zelenka
The showpiece of this concert will be the Missa Dei Filii (Mass for the Son of God) by Jan Dismas Zelenka, this distinctive and often overlooked composer's most ebullient choral work. Zelenka's music is original, distinctive, and offers dazzling rewards to the listener. Accompanying the Mass on the program are selections from the Cantatas for Advent and Christmas by Zelenka's admirer, Johann Sebastian Bach.
The Boston Camerata - The Midnight Cry
An American Christmas (2025)
Full of joy and delightful discovery, this holiday program revisits Camerata’s most popular Christmas offering. It features songs, hymns, New England anthems, and carols from the early years of the American republic. Drawn from a wide range of early tune books and manuscripts, this magnificent Christmas repertoire, our very own, is performed by an ensemble of superb vocal soloists and instrumentalists, under the direction of Anne Azéma.
New Year’s Celebration
Join us for Boston Baroque’s celebrated holiday tradition and ring in the New Year with internationally renowned conductor Marc Minkowski leading the orchestra in a festive program featuring Handel’s complete Water Music, with additional repertoire to be announced.
Composed in 1717 for King George I’s royal barge outing on the River Thames, Handel’s Water Music is one of the most iconic and joyous works of the Baroque era. Brimming with lively dance rhythms, regal fanfares, and infectious energy, the three suites that make up Water Music were designed to be heard outdoors, captivating the royal court and Londoners alike as they floated along the river. Nearly three centuries later, the work remains a timeless symbol of celebration, vitality, and musical brilliance—perfect for welcoming a new year.