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December 19, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Praised as “a sheer delight” (NEW YORK TIMES), Apollo’s Fire’s acclaimed Christmas program comes to Chicago! Artistic Director Jeannette Sorrell weaves the extraordinary works of 17th-century composer Michael Praetorius into a Vespers service. The cathedral resounds in a splendor often reminiscent of Monteverdi – with antiphonal choirs, trumpets, sackbuts, cornettos, lutes, harp, strings and recorders. Familiar highlights […]

December 19, 2025 – December 20, 2025 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm – Blue Heron’s Christmas celebration returns to Spain for mystical motets by Morales, vivacious villancicos by Guerrero, and a dash of comedy—Flecha’s rollicking tale of a shipwreck on Christmas Day, La Bomba. Fri., Dec. 19, 8:00 PM Sat., Dec. 20, 3:00 PM Sat., Dec. 20, 8:00 PM

December 20, 2025 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm – Música Antigua de Albuquerque will present “Drive the Cold Winter Away,”  a concert of rarely-heard Christmas Middle Ages and Renaissance performed with voices and period instruments.  The program will include selections from England, Scotland, Italy, France, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Spain and the Spanish New World.  Audiences will recognize some of the composers whose works will be […]

December 20, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Praised as “a sheer delight” (NEW YORK TIMES), Apollo’s Fire’s acclaimed Christmas program comes to Chicago! Artistic Director Jeannette Sorrell weaves the extraordinary works of 17th-century composer Michael Praetorius into a Vespers service. The cathedral resounds in a splendor often reminiscent of Monteverdi – with antiphonal choirs, trumpets, sackbuts, cornettos, lutes, harp, strings and recorders. Familiar highlights […]