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The community is invited to join in celebrating the season with a wide variety of Christmas music. The concert will feature most of the Music Department choral and instrumental ensembles. Collegians Chorale will present Eric Whitacre's “Lux Aurumque” and “Noel” sung in the Kituba dialect of the Congo, Africa.

Other selections will include “O frondens virga,” sacred music of the middle ages, by Treble Singers; “Lo, How A Rose E’re Blooming” by Goliards Chamber Ensemble’ “Greensleeves Fantasia” by the Flute Choir; and “A Charlie Brown Christmas” by the Jazz Band.

The “Shepherds Chorus” will also be presented by the cast of “Amahl & The Night Visitors” and the Symphonic Wind Ensemble will perform the concert finale “Russian Christmas Music.”

Mount Vernon Nazarene University is a private, four-year, intentionally Christian teaching university for traditional age students, graduate students and working adults. U.S. News & World Report ranks MVNU in the top 50 Best in the Midwest (Bachelor’s-Comprehensive) institutions for the third year in a row. With a 400-acre main campus in Mount Vernon, Ohio, and eight additional satellite Adult and Graduate Studies campuses throughout the state, MVNU emphasizes academic excellence, spiritual growth and service to community and church. MVNU offers an affordable education to more than 2,670 students from 27 states and six countries/U.S. territories.