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Mendelsson Chorale Explores the Real Santa Claus By Chris Linden, managing editor
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orget about Rudolph, Frosty and Jolly St. Nick – Mendelssohn Performing Arts Center’s (MPAC) Christmas concert on Dec. 6 tells a very different tale of the real Santa Claus. Hosted at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, 3300 Rural St., Rockford, this performance joins two pieces by the late Benjamin
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Britten, a British composer who would have turned 100 this year. Ceremony of the Carols and St. Nicholas draw together MPAC’s full Mendelssohn Chorale and the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra Ensemble, with help from a harpist, a tenor, and members of the Rock Valley Children’s Choir and Kantorei, the Singing Boys of Rockford. Continued on p. 20
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