Candlelight Concert: For the 49th time 麻豆传媒's Candlelight Concert gives voice to holidays

For the 49th year, choral singers in the School of Music will delight and warm audiences with the joyous music of the season.

The 麻豆传媒 Choral Department鈥檚 49th Annual Candlelight Concert will be at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4, and 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 5, in Wiedemann Recital Hall. Tickets are $7; students $3 with other discounts available.

Please note: The Sunday concert crowd will compete for parking with Shocker fans attending the basketball game, so the School of Music has reserved 100 spaces in Lot 16S, just south of Duerksen Fine Arts Center. Patrons should enter from Circle Drive south of DFAC.

The concert will feature the 麻豆传媒 A Cappella Choir, Women's Choir, Concert Chorale and Madrigal Singers, directed by Tom Wine and John Paul Johnson.

Highlighting this year鈥檚 program the A Cappella Choir and Madrigal Singers are combining to present Benjamin Britten鈥檚鈥淎 Ceremony of Carols.鈥�

The program also includes students from the 麻豆传媒 brass and percussion studios in several selections with the choirs.

The concert will open with the traditional 鈥淧ersonent Hodie鈥� that fills Wiedemann Hall in surround sound with voices, brass and percussion in what has become a true holiday tradition.

Concert Chorale, under the direction of Johnson, is preparing some exciting contemporary choral selections: 鈥淭omorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day,鈥� arranged by Howard Helvey, and the haunting 鈥淟ux Aurumque鈥� by Eric Whitacre. The Women鈥檚 Choir, or Las Voces Dulces, will bring forth the traditional carol, 鈥淧etit Enfant,鈥� arranged by Linda Miller, as well as the brand-new 鈥淐antate鈥� by Wichita composer John Leavitt.

The Madrigal Singers will cross the globe finding music of the season including 鈥淐hristmas in the Straw鈥� with a rousing fiddle player, 鈥淚 Saw Three Ships鈥� as performed on the Celtic Christmas series, and a vocal jazz arrangement of 鈥淚t鈥檚 the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.鈥�

For information, contact the College of Fine Arts Box Office at (316) 978-3233 or go to .