This season’s iteration of “Christmas in Harvard Square” features a Christmas program that originates across the globe - including music from Nigeria, Germany, France, Ukraine, the West Indies, Austria, and Harvard Square itself! The concert also features audience sing-alongs, accompanied by the virtuosic Back Bay Brass ensemble, together with percussion and the majestic Saint Paul’s pipe organ. Learn more about the concert here and the new carol here.

Gabriel Fauré’s masterwork Requiem offers some of the most dramatic choral music of the twentieth century. Scored for Fauré’s own choir of men and boys at the magnificent church of the La Madeleine in Paris, it has endured as one of his most popular works since its debut performance in 1888. The requiem mass is preceded by a lecture on Faure by Thomas Kelly (Harvard). Faure's Requiem was co-presented by the Harvard Catholic Forum and Saint Paul's Choir School. Learn more here.

Delivering musical hope, Saint Paul’s Choir of Men and Boys premieres its digitally recorded performance of Songs of Springtime, an uplifting choral music concert celebrating the joys of spring and the Marian month. Pieces are drawn from around the world, most notably the great Mexican tradition of choral music including the North American premiere of Manuel de Zumaya’s poetic Quien es aquella. Learn more about the concert here.

In the 2020 season’s anxious atmosphere of social distancing, Starry Night: Christmas in Harvard Square was a beacon of musical hope. The performance is inspired by the stillness of Vincent Van Gogh’s magical painting masterpiece Starry Night, depicting the wonder found in the night sky and embracing the spirit of Christmas celebration. Fifteen musical selections span perennial Christmas favorites by Johann Sebastian Bach to Theodore Marier, SPCS founder. Learn more about Starry Night here.