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Christmas with Choral Arts

Tuesday, December 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM

Baltimore Basilica
409 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD

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Anthony Blake Clark, Music Director and Conductor
Leo Wanenchak, Associate Conductor and Organist
The Baltimore Choral Arts Orchestra
CoroLab Students, Kellie Zephir, director
Kati Harrison, narrator

Repertoire

SECTION ONE

A Yule Fanfare

   Anthony Blake Clark​

Reading: Advent

   Maaike VanderMeer

“Bogorodice Devo, radujsja” from All-Night Vigil

   Sergei Rachmaninoff

Reading: The Road to Bethlehem

   Mia Schilling Grogan

Audience Carol: The First Nowell*

   arr. David Willcocks

Gloria

   Randol Alan Bass

SECTION TWO

Joy to the World

   arr. Howard Arman

Reading: Some Children See Him

   Wihla Hutson

Our Merry Land

   Anthony Blake Clark

Audience Carol: Silent Night*

   arr. Leo Wanenchak

Deck the Hall

   arr. Louis Halsey

SECTION THREE

Saint Joseph, Meek and Mild

   Howard Arman

Canzona Sopra Gathering Peascods

   Howard Arman

Reading: The Carol of the Poor Children

   Richard Middleton

New Star Carol

   Anthony Blake Clark

Have You Seen the Baby Jesus?

   Rosephanye Powell

Jennifer Simone Smith, soprano

SECTION FOUR

Candlelight Carol

   John Rutter

Reading: Light the Festival Candles

   Aileen Lucia Fischer

Reading: The Holly

   Edith King

 

Cum Sancto Spiritu

   Antonio Lotti

Have You Seen the Baby?

   Ruth Morris Gray

CoroLab Students, Kellie Zephir, director

SECTION FIVE

Audience Carol: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing*

   arr. David Willcocks

A New Year Carol

   Benjamin Britten, arr. Anthony Blake Clark

Reading: Ring Out, Wild Bells

   Alfred Lord Tennyson

Audience Carol: O Come, All Ye Faithful*

   arr. John Rutter/David Willcocks

“Hallelujah Chorus” from Messiah

   George Frideric Handel

Support for this concert is provided by the William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund, creator of the Baker Artist Portfolios.

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Additional support is provided by the Maryland State Arts Council (msac.org) and the Citizens of Baltimore County.

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Baltimore Choral Arts
Board of Directors and Staff

Members of the Board

 

Jeffrey A. Austin

Polly E. Behrens

Charles Berardesco

Ellen N. Bernard

Sandra D. Boyd

Jonathan Ceci

Christine M. Collins

Richard A. Dellheim, Esq.

Mellasenah Edwards

David Frankenberger, Jr.

Gordon H. Glenn

Nathanael D. Hartland, Esq.

Melanie Hood-Wilson

Julia Keller

Lauren Madsen

Scott H. Marder

Jean Mellott

Neal J. Naff

Anne Bear Powell

Russell R. Reno, Jr., Esq.

Peter V. Savage

Alan Sweatman, M.D.

John Tracey

Roberto Vela, Esq.

Officers



Charles Berardesco, president
Christine Collins, vice president

Jonathan Ceci, secretary
Dennis P. Cole, Jr., treasurer

Staff


Anthony Blake Clark, music director
Leo Wanenchak, associate conductor
Tom Hall, music director emeritus
Jack A. Fishman, executive director

Andrew Creech, development director
Rachel Tanenblatt, communications director
Thomas Beckwith, accountant
Kelly Buchanan, chorus manager
Max Kuzmyak, sound engineer

 

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Get in Touch with Baltimore Choral Arts Society

1316 Park Ave
Baltimore, MD 21217

410-523-7070 ext. 301

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