Holidays bring music to Danbury

The Christmas season here in Danbury will be celebrated with music as three concerts have been scheduled over the next couple of weeks.

Under the baton of Music Director Stephen Michael, the Danbury Community Orchestra will perform Robert Schumann’s Overture, Scherzo and Finale in E major, Op.52, and Serenade in A minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Although the event will be free, donations will be welcome.

The performance will be on December 15th beginning at 7:30 pm at WCSU Visual & Performing Arts Center, 43 Lake Avenue Ext.

Another Christmas concert will also be held on Friday, December 15th as the St. Peter Parish Choir will have its Christmas season performance with three acapella Christmas motets. Cecilia McDowall will sing Now may we singen, Eleanor Daley will sing Once as I Remember, and Margaret Hughes will sing Puer nobis nascitur. The Choir will perform Vivaldi’s Gloria after which the audience will be invited to take part in a carol sing. Admission will be free.

This Christmas Concert will begin at 7:00 pm at St. Peter Church, 104 Main Street.

Danbury Music Center, members of the Danbury Symphony Orchestra, and the Danbury Concert Chorus will be performing Handel’s Messiah for the 67th year. Admission will be free.

The Messiah concert will be held at the First Congregational Church of Danbury, 164 Deer Hill Avenue, at 4:00 pm Sunday, December 17th.

Concerts like these are occasionally used as part of a Corporate Gifts scheme.
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