Our Lessons and Carols program this year takes on the theme to Celebrate This Day. While the selection centers on Christmas, the nativity story carries many universal symbols beyond what is strictly Christian: to welcome all that will renew us, to acknowledge the beauty in the world’s mystery, to think of those who are close to us, and to celebrate as a community.

Our Lessons and Carols program this year takes on the theme to Celebrate This Day. While the selection centers on Christmas, the nativity story carries many universal symbols beyond what is strictly Christian: to welcome all that will renew us, to acknowledge the beauty in the world’s mystery, to think of those who are close to us, and to celebrate as a community.

Join Schola Cantorum of Eau Claire for a musical retelling of the Christmas story, a journey of the message delivered by the angel Gabriel, the shepherds guided by the star, the birth of Jesus, and the arrival of the Magi — all told through Medieval and ­Renaissance music from England, Spain, Germany and Italy.

Join Schola Cantorum of Eau Claire for a musical retelling of the Christmas story, a journey of the message delivered by the angel Gabriel, the shepherds guided by the star, the birth of Jesus, and the arrival of the Magi — all told through Medieval and ­Renaissance music from England, Spain, Germany and Italy.

University of Wisconsin-Stout Symphonic Singers, Chamber Choir, and Devil Tones Acappella perform in concert.

We celebrate 500 years since the birth of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, the Italian composer whose clear and elegant polyphony influenced the development of sacred choral music for centuries.

Enjoy his “Missa Quam Pulchra Es” and other sacred choral pieces from different regions and centuries since Palestrina!

We celebrate 500 years since the birth of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, the Italian composer whose clear and elegant polyphony influenced the development of sacred choral music for centuries.

Enjoy his “Missa Quam Pulchra Es” and other sacred choral pieces from different regions and centuries since Palestrina!

Join Schola Cantorum of Eau Claire for a concert of lighthearted songs and madrigals from England, France, Italy, Spain, and the United States. Enjoy a beverage from the Mabel, while listening to drinking songs, carnival songs, and many more!

Tickets: $18. https://www.mabeltainter.org/schedule/schola-cantorum

Join Schola Cantorum of Eau Claire for a concert of lighthearted songs and madrigals from England, France, Italy, Spain, and the United States. Enjoy a beverage from the Mabel, while listening to drinking songs, carnival songs, and many more!

UW-Stout Symphonic Singers, Chamber Choir, and Devil Tones Acappella perform a showcase concert in the Harvey Hall Theatre, as part of the Stout Proud Weekend.

The Chippewa Valley Symphony Orchestra concludes the season with one of the most famous and performed symphonies of all time, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony “Ode to Joy”, with Chippewa Valley Festival Choir and a quartet of guest soloists. First to incorporate a chorus, this groundbreaking symphony is an epic journey of human experience from individual struggle to universal exultation.

(Stevens Point, WI; location TBA)

The UW-Stout Symphonic Singers, Chamber Choir, and Devil Tones Acappella present an evening of music that are about the weather — from the fair to the bad, and some improbable ones too! Tickets: $5.

The concert commemorates the 400th year since the passing of William Byrd. A master of renaissance polyphony, Byrd influenced so many of his contemporaries with his intricate writing of intertwining lines and dramatic harmonies. The program would include works by three different Thomases: Tallis, Byrd’s teacher and partner in a (failed) publishing business; Morley, Byrd’s student who dedicated a popular music theory book to Byrd; and Weelkes, also Byrd’s student who sadly, like Morley, only lived for about half the years as their beloved teacher.

The concert commemorates the 400th year since the passing of William Byrd. A master of renaissance polyphony, Byrd influenced so many of his contemporaries with his intricate writing of intertwining lines and dramatic harmonies. The program would include works by three different Thomases: Tallis, Byrd’s teacher and partner in a (failed) publishing business; Morley, Byrd’s student who dedicated a popular music theory book to Byrd; and Weelkes, also Byrd’s student who sadly, like Morley, only lived for about half the years as their beloved teacher.

“Totentanz”: A Musical Meditation on Mortality
To depart is a fundamental experience — one that we may have collectively experienced all too frequently over the last three years. We invite you to reflect and meditate with us through a concert of German music from the Renaissance and the early 20th century. Songs and motets by Eccard, Hassler, Isaac, Schein, and Schütz express the sorrow for the departed, while giving solace and hope to the living. The centerpiece, Totentanz (Dance of Death) composed by Hugo Distler in 1934, draws its text from a Medieval morality play in which Death has a final dialog with people of all walks of life.

Free admission; donations accepted.

“Totentanz”: A Musical Meditation on Mortality
To depart is a fundamental experience — one that we may have collectively experienced all too frequently over the last three years. We invite you to reflect and meditate with us through a concert of German music from the Renaissance and the early 20th century. Songs and motets by Eccard, Hassler, Isaac, Schein, and Schütz express the sorrow for the departed, while giving solace and hope to the living. The centerpiece, Totentanz (Dance of Death) composed by Hugo Distler in 1934, draws its text from a Medieval morality play in which Death has a final dialog with people of all walks of life.

Tickets: $15 in advance / $20 at the door