Dessoff offers its annual holiday Welcome Yule concert on Saturday, December 6, 2025 at 4:00 p.m., celebrating the 500th anniversary of Palestrina’s birth at St. Philip's Episcopal Church.

Program:

Surge, illuminate, Jerusalem — Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)

Praeludium e Allegro in the style of Pugnani — Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)

Carol: O come all ye faithful — John Francis Wade (1711-1786), Arr. David Willcocks (1919-2015)

O Fortuna from Carmina Burana — Carl Orff (1895-1982)

Magnificat from St. Paul’s Service — Herbert Howells (1892-1982)

Christus factus est — Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)

Missa Brevis: Agnus Dei — Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 

Ave Maria — Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Carol: Hark the herald angels sing — Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Arr. Daniel Fortune 

Non ti scordar di mi — Ernesto DeCurtis (1875-1937)

Jennifer Dapice, soprano

Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiß from Giuditta — Franz Lehár (1870-1948)

Nadine Lee, soprano

Di quella pira from Il Trovatore — Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Brindisi from La Traviata — Giuseppe Verdi

Nessum Dorma from Turandot — Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

Carol: While shepherds watched their flocks

Carol of the Bells — arr. Chris R. Hansen

Good King Wenceslas — John Montez

Diana Claps, mezzo-soprano

Sing Aho — Margaret Bonds (1913-1972)

Carol: Silent night — Franz Xaver Gruber (1787-1863)

Hallelujah from Messiah — George Friderick Handel (1685-1759)

Artists:

Ryan Cheung, assistant conductor

Steven Ryan, pianist

Malcolm J. Merriweather, conductor