The Concert Singers Perform "Saint Nicholas Mass" and "Christmas On Broadway"

The Concert Singers
Perform “Saint Nicholas Mass”
And “Christmas on Broadway”

The Concert Singers announce their thirty-sixth season of Holiday Concerts. One of the featured works is Franz Josef Haydn’s popular “Saint Nicholas Mass” with professional solo quartet and chamber orchestra. Also included in the program are Hanukah songs, Kirke Mechem’s “Seven Joys of Christmas,” a community carol sing, and contemporary versions of Christmas carols. The program will end with a medley of every Broadway holiday song ever written: “Christmas on Broadway.” This is a great way to start the Holiday season.

The first performance is on Friday evening, December 4th, 8:00 pm, at the Unitarian-Universalist Church, 101 Forest Avenue, Swampscott, MA. The second concert will be Sunday afternoon, December 6th, 2:30 pm, at Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, 571 Boston Street, West Lynn, MA. These concerts are free of charge and both venues are handicap-accessible. A free-will offering is at your discretion.

William C. Sano of Salem has been music director of the Concert Singers for twenty-nine years. Sano is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music. He is the instructor for the “Season at Symphony” class in Swampscott, teaches for the Salem State Explorers LLI, and is the former music supervisor in the Marblehead Public Schools. He is also an organist, pianist, and directs a large church choir in Weston MA. The chorus’ accompanist is Margaret J. Dee, a charter member of the Concert Singers. She is a former music teacher in Danvers Public Schools, and is currently the organist of Our Lady Church in Lynnfield. The sixty-plus chorus members hail from seventeen cities and towns north of Boston, as well as two members from Pembroke and Plymouth on the South Shore!

These concerts are funded in part by the Lynn Cultural Council, the Swampscott Cultural Council, the Marblehead Cultural Council and the Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation.

For further information please call Margaret Oleson at 781-639-4558 or Bill Sano at 978-744-4787.