The Starr's Mill High School Choruses will present their annual Holiday Concert on Thursday evening, Dec. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Willie Duke Auditorium at the South Complex. The concert will feature the Treble Chorus, Concert Choir, Advanced Women's Chorus and Chanticleer singing a wide variety of songs of the season from standard sacred choral literature to lighter contemporary arrangements of popular holiday tunes. Duke Auditorium will provide the perfect setting adorned with Christmas greenery, wreaths, and hundreds of twinkling white lights.

The concert will begin in darkness with Chanticleer singing Robert Shaw's and Alice Parker's stunning a Capella arrangement of O Come, O Come Emmanuel.

Next, Duke Auditorium will come aglow as the 140 members of the choral program will process with candles while singing the traditional Renaissance chant Personent Hodie complete with handbells, hand drum, and period instruments.

The Treble Chorus will then feature such songs as Gesu Bambino, the haunting Balulalow, Patapan, and an exciting mixed-meter arrangement of Jingle Bells. Next, the concert Choir will entertain with a variety of holiday music including The First Noel (featuring a violin duet), Rise Up Shepherd and Follow, Scarborough Carol, and Sleigh Ride.

The Advanced Women's Chorus will feature This Little Babe from Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols, Mendelssohn's Lift Thine Eyes, a novelty arrangement titled Jingle Bell Fantasy, and an a Capella arrangement of Coventry Carol.

Chanticleer will continue with a Capella settings of the Spanish carol Fum, Fum, Fum, the calypso carol Mary's Little Boy Chile, and a unique setting of I'll Be Home For Christmas.

The concert will include candlelight with all the choirs encircling the audience and singing the traditional favorites Silent Night and Joy to the World.