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Closing out a most musical weekend on the New England campus, the Thomas Aquinas College Choir and Orchestra took to the stage for a Christmas concert on Sunday, December 3 — open not only to the students, faculty, and staff of the College, but also to friends from the wider Northfield community. 

Playing for an audience in the Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati Student Center, the concert began with the orchestra’s performance of Arcangelo Corelli’s seven-movement Christmas Concerto. To round out the first half of the program, the choir then sang Bach’s Uns ist ein Kind geboren, featuring three student soloists. Soloists featured heavily in the second half, as well, with Trinity Duggan (’24) and Zoe Grimm (granddaughter of Director Stephen Grimm ’75), singing two moving arias to Our Lady before the full choir and orchestra plunged into selections from Handel’s Messiah.

“I really loved the concert,” said one friend of the College. “It’s not often that we get to just sit and appreciate beautiful music. It was also lovely to see so many young people excited about singing classical music!”