Gloria! Festive Music for the Season

MCS celebrates the holiday season with Vivaldi's "Gloria", a true high point in Vivaldi's prolific output which conveys the unprecedented joy and drama of that magical moment in the Christmas story when the angels bring their greetings to the shepherds. The second part of the program will intersperse chorales from the Bach "Christmas Oratorio" with solo and choral movements from Part III of Handel's great oratorio, "Judas Maccabaeus". The selected movements from each of these great works focus upon images of light, joy, and peace common to both Christmas and Hanukkah.