Weekend Concert Calendar, 12/1/11

This is a big weekend - Cantilena, conducted by yours truly, is having their annual winter concert this Sunday at 3 pm! We are presenting "An American Christmas" with music and texts by American composers and poets. I am very proud of the program I assembled, which has a little bit of everything - some familiar tunes, some unfamiliar tunes, some contemporary music, some folk music, some gospel. We are particularly excited to be presenting a premiere by Ken Seitz (the director emeritus) written just for us. Details are as follows:

Cantilena: An American Christmas
Dec. 4, 3 pm
First Parish Arlington
630 Mass. Ave, Arlington Center
$20/$12 stu/sen

In addition to the concerts below, don't forget there are Messiah sings every day this weekend!

Friday:

• Handel & Haydn, Handel's Messiah, 7:30 pm, Boston
• Boston College University Chorale, excerpts from Handel's Messiah and traditional carols, 8:00 pm, Newton
  

Saturday:

• Handel & Haydn, Handel's Messiah, 3:00 pm, Boston
• deVaronistas, "Great Day!", 4:00 pm, Cambridge
  
• Cantemus, “Shining Night: Songs of a Night Sky”, 7:30 pm, Beverly Farms
  
• Sharing a New Song, Selections from Classical, Gospel, Holiday, and World Music, 7:30 pm, Arlington
• Polymnia, "A Victorian Christmas", 7:30 pm, Melrose
• Simmons College Concert Choir, "Serenade" Winter Concert, 7:30 pm, Boston
  
• Harvard Pro Musica, presenting excerpts from Handel’s Messiah and other seasonal selections, 7:30 pm, Harvard, MA
• Halalisa Singers, "Songs of Light", 8:00 pm, Lexington
  
• Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society, "Christmas in Sanders", 8:00 pm, Cambridge
• Musica Sacra, "Lessons and Carols", 8:00 pm, Cambridge
• Boston College University Chorale, excerpts from Handel's Messiah and traditional carols, 8:00 pm, Newton
• Boston Camerata, "The Sacred Bridge", 8:00 pm, Cambridge
• MIT Concert Choir, Faure's Requiem and works by Thomson and Howells, 8:00 pm, Cambridge
• Three Rivers Chorus, "It Is At Moments", 8:00 pm, Sudbury
• Exsultemus, Baroque vocal cantatas by Telemann, 8:00 pm, Newton
• Harvard's Kuumba Singers, Annual Winter Concert, 8:00 pm, Cambridge
  

Sunday:

• Cantilena, "An American Christmas", 3:00 pm, Arlington (directed by ME!)
• Boston College University Chorale, excerpts from Handel's Messiah and traditional carols, 2:00 pm, Newton
  
• Arlington-Belmont Chamber Chorus, Holiday concert including Bach's Cantata 142, 3:00 pm, Belmont
• Halalisa Singers, "Songs of Light", 3:00 pm, Sudbury
• Mishawum Choral Society, Christmas Concert, 3:00 pm, Winchester
  
• A Cappella Singers, "Holiday Festival Concert with Metrowest Symphony Orchestra", 3:00 pm, Framingham
• Handel & Haydn, Handel's Messiah, 3:00 pm, Boston
• Vienna Boys' Choir, Holiday Program, 3:00 pm, Boston
  
• Cantemus, “Shining Night: Songs of a Night Sky”, 4:00 pm, Newburyport
• Zamir Chorale of Boston, Handel's Judas Maccabeus, 4:00 pm, Chestnut Hill

Did I miss anything? Want to advertise your own musical event? Leave it in the comments!