The Pasadena Master Chorale will hold its “Home for the Holidays” concert at the Altadena Community Church (United Church of Christ), 943 E. Altadena Dr., on Sun., Dec. 12, starting at 4 PM. The program will also be performed on Sat., Dec. 11, at the First Congregational Church at 464 E. Walnut St., Pasadena.
Fourteen-year-old cellist Harry Wilde Greer will join PMC, playing the cello solo in Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on Christmas Carols. Other works to be performed include Morten Lauridsen’s O Magnum Mysterium, Britten’s Hymn to the Virgin, a movement from Rachmaninoff’s Vespers and a beautiful setting of Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening by Harvard composer Noam Elkies. The program will also feature Michael Arceneaux, the 17-year-old winner of PMC’s 1st Annual Vocal Competition, performing O Holy Night in a new arrangement by artistic director Jeffrey Bernstein.
In addition to the above, 25 PUSD students will join PMC for Bach’s Dona Nobis Pacem and Vaughan Williams’s Wassail, the choirs of Pasadena and Muir High Schools will perform their own selections, and there will be an audience sing-along of traditional carols.
Tickets are $20.50 each, and are available here.
The Pasadena Master Chorale will hold its “Home for the Holidays” concert at the Altadena Community Church (United Church of Christ), 943 E. Altadena Dr., on Sun., Dec. 12, starting at 4 PM. The program will also be performed on Sat., Dec. 11, at the First Congregational Church at 464 E. Walnut St., Pasadena.
Fourteen-year-old cellist Harry Wilde Greer will join PMC, playing the cello solo in Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on Christmas Carols. Other works to be performed include Morten Lauridsen’s O Magnum Mysterium, Britten’s Hymn to the Virgin, a movement from Rachmaninoff’s Vespers and a beautiful setting of Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening by Harvard composer Noam Elkies. The program will also feature Michael Arceneaux, the 17-year-old winner of PMC’s 1st Annual Vocal Competition, performing O Holy Night in a new arrangement by artistic director Jeffrey Bernstein.
In addition to the above, 25 PUSD students will join PMC for Bach’s Dona Nobis Pacem and Vaughan Williams’s Wassail, the choirs of Pasadena and Muir High Schools will perform their own selections, and there will be an audience sing-along of traditional carols.
Tickets are $20.50 each, and are available here.