From the choirs of Sing in the Season:
Sing in the Season continues this weekend with two of New Jersey’s top choral arts organizations performing on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2025, and a third performing on New Year’s Eve.
At 3 pm, Michael Wittenburg conducts the Morris Choral Society at the Morristown United Methodist Church on the Green, in a program entitled Home for the Holidays: Celebrations Around the World.
The program explores the different celebrations all around the world and not only features the Chorus, but also the women’s treble ensemble, High Society, the men’s group, Express Male, and the Frelinghuysen Middle School Select Choir.
Singing in the Season: Harmonium, Dec. 8, 2024. Photos by Kevin Coughlin/MorristownGreen.com
High Society which will perform a Spanish Carol, A la nanita nana, as well as selections from Benjamin Britton’s brilliant A Ceremony of Carols. Express Male will sing a variety of holiday favorites including I’ll Be Home for Christmas.
The Frelinghuysen Choir, under the direction of Gillian Erlenborn, will perform its own set as well as join MCS for the popular sing-along. MCS will feature songs from around the world culminating with selections from the Home Alone movie scores of John Williams. Tickets are available here.
Also at 3 p.m., The Masterwork Chorus, under the baton of Music Director Martin Sedek, rings in the holidays at St. Elizabeth University’s Dolan Hall in Morris Township, singing Handel’s Messiah with full orchestra and soloists. Tickets are available here. The Chorus also will perform Messiah at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, Dec. 19, at 7:30 p.m.
And finally, at First Night Morris, the New Jersey’s largest New Year’s Eve celebration, the Harmonium Choral Society will perform at Church of the Redeemer at 6 pm and 7 pm. Advance sale tickets are only $25 through the First Night Morris website.
Funding for the Morris Choral Society and for the Harmonium Choral Society has been made possible in part by Morris Arts through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. The Masterwork Chorus is funded by the Bergen Foundation, New Jersey Cultural Trust and many corporations.
