The Kent Singers gave their annual holiday concert to two full-house audiences on Saturday, December 13 and Sunday, December 14, 2025 at St. Andrew’s Church in Kent, CT.
Following the format of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols out of King’s College, Cambridge, England, the concert alternated seasonal carols with poetry readings.
Featuring A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms with soloists and chamber orchestra.
Tickets available here: tickets
2022-23 Summer: Schubert/Haydn (Pro recording)
2022-23 Summer: Schubert/Haydn (DIY recording)
2022-23 Summer: Schubert/Haydn (Rehearsals)
2021-22 Summer: Handel Messiah
2022-23 Holiday: Welcome Yule (Dec 10)
2022-23 Holiday: Welcome Yule (Dec 11)
2022-23 Spring: Jubilant Song
2022-23 Summer: Schubert/Haydn (Dress Rehearsal Pasteup)
2021-22 Spring: Songs of the British Isles (Mar 6)
2018-19 Summer: Bach St. John Passion
2018-19 Spring: Seek Out Light
2022-23 Season Highlights
2019-22 Season Highlights
2023-24 Holiday: A Rose in Winter (Dec 9)
2023-24 Holiday: A Rose in Winter (Dec 10)
2023-24 Holiday: A Rose in Winter (Best tracks)
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2023-24 Spring: The Peace of Wild Things
2023-24 Summer: Rehearsal Tracks
2023-24 Summer: Handel, Zelenka & Vivaldi
2023-24 Season Highlights
2024-25 Holiday: Once, as I Remember (Dec 7)
2024-25 Holiday: Once, as I Remember (Dec 8)
2024-25 Holiday: Once, as I Remember (Best Tracks)
2024-25 Spring: Rehearsal Tracks
WMNR Radio Interview 16 March 2025
2024-25 Spring: The Gift to Sing
2024-25 Spring: The Gift to Sing (Dress Rehearsal)
2024-25 Summer: Mozart Requiem & Coronation Mass
2024-25 Season Highlights
2025-26 Holiday: All This Time (Dec 13)
2025-26 Holiday: All This Time (Dec 14)
2025-26 Holiday: All This Time (Best Tracks)
1980-81 Holiday: Burt, Baroque, Pachelbel, Pinkham
1980-81 Spring: Dubois – The Seven Last Words of Christ
1980-81 Spring: Mozart Coronation Mass & Bach Cantata 71
2025-26 Spring: Brahms, Fauré, Vaughan Williams
2025-26 Summer: Brahms Requiem (Dress Rehearsal)
2025-26 Summer: Brahms Requiem (Concert)
2025-26 Summer: Brahms Requiem (Best Tracks)
Dress rehearsal: Wednesday, December 10, 2025, 7:00 – 9:00 PM.
Concert dates: Saturday & Sunday, December 13 & 14, 2025. Concert is at 3:00 PM.
Here is the concert running order:
As we did last year, we are starting by soliciting ads to local businesses by mail. Later we may ask you to follow up in person with businesses who have not responded, if necessary.
A mailing to previous advertisers and potential new advertisers suggested by our members has been prepared, but it’s not too late to reach out to other possible advertisers if you know of some good prospects. Ad orders are due by November 1.
If you have any questions about the ad sales campaign, the easiest way to contact Jill Sauser is to send an email to jill.sauser@gmail.com.
As we begin our 53rd season, we hope you will join our celebration by placing an advertisement again this year or joining our community of local business supporters for the first time. We appreciate your support!
We can help you compose your ad. It’s also possible to vary the ad content in each program (for the holiday, spring and summer seasons).
Advertisers (and their website links) will also be listed on the Kent Singers website and included in email blasts sent to our entire mailing list. If you purchase a large or extra-large ad, you will also receive 2 complimentary tickets to one 2025-2026 concert!
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Our homage to the Festival of Lessons and Carols, featuring poetry and carols both traditional and modern.
Tickets available at the door for $20. Tickets may be exchanged for the December 14 performance (no later than Dec. 10).
Our homage to the Festival of Lessons and Carols, featuring poetry and carols both traditional and modern.
Tickets available at the door for $20. Tickets may be exchanged for the December 13 performance (no later than Dec. 10).
Featuring Nänie by Johannes Brahms.
Tickets available at the door for $20.
Featuring A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms with soloists and chamber orchestra.
Tickets available at the door for $30.
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Our homage to the Festival of Lessons and Carols, featuring poetry and carols both traditional and modern.
The traditional Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols out of King’s College Cambridge was first celebrated nearly 150 years ago, on Christmas Eve, 1880. In lieu of biblical readings, our concert version of this globally popular service includes poetry, interspersed with both traditional and less familiar carols.
The Christian season of Advent, the weeks leading up to Christmas, shares common themes with millennia of religious and pagan observances during the cold, increasingly dark days before the winter solstice. It is a time when the lack of daylight and weather conditions can deeply affect our moods. While we typically associate the holiday season—both religious and secular—with joy, festivity, and community, it can be a time of sadness, longing, and isolation for many people. Our program, like the original Lessons and Carols, acknowledges that complexity and seasonal context while seeking to bring a message of comfort, hope, peace, and ultimately joy.
Featuring Nänie by Johannes Brahms.
Featuring A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms with soloists and chamber orchestra.
Tickets for all three concerts are available here: tickets
June 8, 2025
St. John’s Church, New Milford CT
James Knox Sutterfield, cond.
The 2025 edition of our Summer Great Works concert series presents Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass, with orchestra and soloists.
Click here to see the concert program
Our December 2024 concert, Once, as I Remember, followed the form of the Festival of Lessons and Carols presented annually by the King’s College choir in Cambridge, England, but with poetry readings in place of the traditional scripture lessons. The Spring concert, The Gift to Sing, on March 23, 2025 featured a newly commissioned setting from composer Jonathan Woody of “The Gift to Sing” by James Weldon Johnson.
We ended the season singing Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass for a large and appreciative audience. The performance featured a large orchestra and four talented soloists, two of whom have a Kent Singers family connection: Bass soloist Dylan Armstrong’s mother, Sue Ellen Armstrong, sings in our alto section, and his wife, Sarah Armstrong, was our soprano soloist! (The other soloists were Megan Roth, mezzo-soprano, and Matthew Newhouse, tenor.)
