This module represents a sample Christmas Concert Program that encompasses Baroque, modern repertoire and Christmas Carols. As this is a concert given by many school and community choirs in the western Christian culture it is especially given prominence here. Christian church choirs will also present special performances during the services leading up to Christmas. Other religions and cultures will present concerts at times and in the manners appropriate to the religion or culture.
Christmas concert programs
There are several formats that are widely used to present choral ensembles in concert. There are also certain times of the school year when choral concerts seem most appropriate. Almost every choral department presents a Christmas concert and a spring concert. Some schedule a concert earlier in the fall. These concerts can be general in nature related to repertoire to be chosen or can be special concerts for particular occasions. It is convenient that Christmas occurs late in a school semester or at the end of a fall sequence of rehearsals for a community or church choir, allowing time to adequately rehearse a concert repertoire.
The following concert programs illustrate possibilities for the choral conductor.
The concert of Christmas music represents repertoire from the Baroque and the twentieth century, and traditional carol settings.
| Hodie Christus Natus Est |
Sweelinck |
| Command Thine Angel, That He Come |
Buxtehude |
| In Dulci Jubilo (with brass) |
Praetorius |
Concert choir
| The Ceremony of Carols |
Benjamin Britten |
Girls chorus
| Familiar Carols |
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| Christ Was Born on Christmas Day |
Arr. Shaw-Parker |
| The Holly and The Ivy |
Arr. Shaw-Parker |
| He is Born |
Arr. Wagner |
| Ding Dong! Merrily On High |
Arr. Williamson |
Chamber choir
| Exultet Coelum Laudibus |
J. Paynter |
| When Christ Was Born of Mary Free |
J. Gardner |
| Three Christmas Songs |
J. Jarrett |
| Four Carols for a Holy Night |
S. Lekberg |
