"Sounds of the Season" ring out this Friday in Wilton

Join Music on the Hill for its annual "Sounds of the Season" concert on Friday, December 14, at 7:30 p.m. at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, 36 New Canaan Road, Wilton.

Featured: the premiere of Artistic Director Ellen Dickinson's Stars over Snow: An English Christmas, with new music and an arrangement of traditional English carols for chorus and bells. Also, Artistic Director David H. Connel's "Winter Acclamation" for handbells.

Concertgoers will recognize familiar carols and songs -- Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Wassail Song" and Alice Parker's arrangement of the traditional French carol "Il Est Né" -- and be stirred by contemporary composer Linda Dowdell's "Ring Out, Wild Bells," her choral setting of the Tennyson poem.

All will be invited to sing favorite carols with the imposing St. Matthew's organ.

"Sounds of the Season" is suitable for families and is free. A donation of $20 for adults is suggested.

About Music on the Hill

Music on the Hill, based in Wilton, is an independent non-profit organization offering workshops, a Summer Sings series, and four performing ensembles, all under the dynamic leadership of its artistic directors.

Music on the Hill is funded by generous donors and, in part, by a grant from the CT Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of the Arts, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Learn more, and subscribe to the mailing list, at musiconthehillCT.org.