Wilton's Music On The Hill Presents 'Sounds Of The Season' Friday

WILTON, CT — Music on the Hill will present "Sounds of the Season" this Friday, Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Westport, 10 Lyons Plains Road.

Featuring the 40-voice Festival Chorus, the Community Children's Chorus, and two handbell ensembles, the concert will include selections for Christmas and Hanukkah, as well as new and familiar winter songs.

Choral highlights include Ralph Vaughan Williams’ lively “Wassail Song,” “Christmas is Coming,” arranged by Mack Wilberg for chorus and four-hand piano, and Betty Bertaux’s arrangement of “S’vivon,” sung by the Festival Chorus and the Children’s Chorus.

Handbell will play a jaunty “Sleigh Ride,” arranged by Martha Lynn Thompson, and will accompany the Children’s Chorus for “Ring Out, Wild Bells,” Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s celebratory New Year’s poem set to music by Music on the Hill Artistic Director Ellen Dickinson.

Carols sung by the audience round out the program.

Suggested donation is $25