This Week’s Morning Show Features: Cantemus Winter Concert
November 3, 2026November 3, 2026
This Week’s Morning Show Features:
Cantemus Winter Concert
This week I’ll be speaking with Jason Ianuzzi, Artistic Director of Cantemus Chamber Chorus, about their upcoming concert titled, Once Upon a Winter: Tales of Wonder Through a Child’s Eyes.
Composed of 42 members from across the North Shore, Cantemus will perform in Newburyport on Saturday, December 5th at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, in Beverly on Saturday, December 12th at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, and in Gloucester on Sunday, December 13th at the Unitarian Universalist Church. All three performances are at 4:00 p.m.
Jason will talk about the featured work by composer Matthew Harris, a choral adaptation of Dylan Thomas’s beloved work, A Child’s Christmas in Wales. He will discuss the concert’s unifying and seasonal themes of memory, wonder, darkness and the return of light, and will explain how these are expressed in contemporary and traditional songs from different cultures, including “Song for Yalda Night,” an Iranian piece about the longest night of the year; the “Kang Ding Love Song,” a Chinese folk song associated with the Winter Solstice; Morten Lauridsen’s “Lament for Pasiphaë;” and traditional Hanukkah songs “Mi Y’Maleil” and “S’vivon,” among others.
Jason will also describe how Cantemus plans to collaborate with an 11-piece chamber orchestra and the Lexington Children’s Chorus, an auditioned choral ensemble for singers in grades 4-6.
For more information about the concert and to purchase tickets, visit www.cantemus.org/tickets. Tickets may also be purchased at the door, space permitting.
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