Christmas in Concert – December 3rd, 2025 – Doors Open at 6:00 pm
Join us for the 2025 Annual Joint Christmas in Concert on December 3rd! Enjoy inspiring performances from our Theatre, Band, Choir, Writers Block, and the MSJ Dance Team as they share the joy of the season. The concert begins at 7:00 p.m.
If you’re joining us in person, stay afterward for hot chocolate and the annual MSJ Tree Lighting on the campus Quad. Doors to the Theatre lobby open at 6:00 p.m., where the Art Guild will be selling custom ornaments and paintings. You’ll also find booths from the Roar Store, Institutional Advancement, and Patron Circle. Following the Tree Lighting, the Center for Mission & Belonging will host hot chocolate and cookies in the Seton Lobby.
Can’t make it in person? No worries—you can watch the event live at the link below:
https://www.msj.edu/lan.../msj-live-stream-events/index.html
Read below to see what our talented MSJ Renaissance programs will be providing for the Annual Christmas in Concert!
Art Guild: The Art Guild is a hands-on art making experience. Members of the class will be completing public art projects both on and off campus. The Art Guild provides students with the opportunity to work on individual and group projects in areas of their expertise and interest. The Art Guild will be selling custom ornaments and paintings in the Theatre Lobby.
MSJ Choir: For the Christmas in Concert on December 3rd, the University Singers will perform Go, Tell It on the Mountain arranged by Cincinnati-based composer Howard Helvey, offering a bright and energetic take on the traditional spiritual. The Chamber Singers will present The First Noel by Dan Forrest, one of today’s most widely performed American choral composers, highlighting the ensemble’s warm tone and expressive phrasing. To close, the combined choirs will perform Harry Simeone’s well-known arrangement of Do You Hear What I Hear?, a classic choral setting made famous by the Harry Simeone Chorale and widely recognized for its full, traditional Christmas sound.
MSJ Theatre Arts: Theatre Arts will be producing the second Annual Christmas in Concert. Featured actors, Brennin Sanders and Peyton Pope, will host the evening, emceeing the concert. Theatre students will be backstage managing all of the moving parts – from the stage set-up, curtains opening and closing, to getting the performance groups in place. There will be theatre students in the light booth working with Tatum Mann, the Theatre & Events Technical Director to make sure that everyone can be seen and heard. There will be a student house manager and student ushers to help patrons to their seats. Theatre Arts participation in Christmas in Concert is mostly unseen, our job is to make sure that the performance and evening runs smoothly and successfully.
MSJ University Bands: Concert Band and Jazz Band will perform a number of Christmas Carols, in single arrangements, and in medleys. Concert Band features student conductors Hallie Browning and Marisa Larson, and Jazz Band will feature Marisa Larson singing a rendition of Let It Snow! based off of the original parts for Ella Fitzgerald's 1960 album Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas.
Concert Band joins with MSJ Choirs to perform Christmas Music for Winds and Voices, followed by our Steel Drum Band performing various Christmas Carols as audience members walk to our Centennial Christmas Tree Lighting, held at the Centennial Tree, on the Campus Quad.
Peak Productions: Productions is a hands-on video production experience. Peak Productions provides students with the opportunity to work on video projects in areas of their expertise and interest be it field recording, live video streaming technical support or postproduction editing, motion graphic design, or podcast audio recording throughout the semester. The team will be providing the video production and a live stream support of the event.
Writer’s Block: Writer's Block is an inclusive, collaborative writing community at Mount St. Joseph University. We celebrate creativity by fostering a safe, welcoming space for students from all walks of life to explore their writing in a friendly environment. Writer's Block students will be reading some of their original poetry and prose. There will be readings from 5 different Writer's Block students.
We look forward to seeing everyone at the 2025 Annual Joint Christmas in Concert on December 3rd!