Yuletide Concert to feature more than 200 student musicians

The University of Maine School of Performing Arts will present its annual Yuletide Concert at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6 at the Collins Center for the Arts.

The holiday tradition features all the UMaine choirs including the Oratorio Society, University Singers, Collegiate Chorale and Black Bear Men’s Chorus.

This year, the choral ensembles will be joined by the University Orchestra in a program that ranges from Christmas music by Johann Sebastian Bach and Felix Mendelssohn, to arrangements of many favorite carols, to George Frideric Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus” and a new orchestration of “O Holy Night” by UMaine graduate student Ben McNaboe.

About 200 singers and 45 instrumentalists are expected to take part in the performance that will be conducted by School of Performing Arts faculty Francis John Vogt, Anatole Wieck, Danny Williams and Justin Zang.

Tickets are $12, or free with a valid student MaineCard, and are available at the CCA box office, by calling 581.1755 or online. For more information or to request a disability accommodation, call 581.1755.