IF YOU GOWhat: Choral Arts’ “Welcome, Yule!”When: 7:30 tonight.Where: Second Presbyterian Church, 700 Pine St.Admission: $15 adults, $5 students with ID, free for ages 12 and younger.Website: www.choralartsofchattanooga.org.
Tonight’s holiday celebration with Choral Arts of Chattanooga will offer Christmas carols from around the world when the ensemble presents “Welcome, Yule!” at Second Presbyterian Church downtown.
Choral Arts is a chorus of 26 experienced local singers whose mission is to offer the finest in classical and contemporary choral literature.
According to director Keith Reas, the singers will present a group of Advent pieces composed by German romantics Mendelssohn, Rheinberger and Brahms. They will be followed by a setting of Pachelbel’s “Magnificat.” Reas said the first half also will include a set of four Christmas motets: “O Magnum Mysterium,” “Quem Vidistis,” “Videntes Stellam” and “Hodie Christus Natus Est.”
After intermission, the singers will open their second half with Kirke Mecham’s “Seven Joys of Christmas.”