VoXX Presents Annual “Music for the New Year” Concert

The all-volunteer a cappella mid-coast choral ensemble VoXX: Voice of Twenty will kick off its annual “Music for the New Year” concert series at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 7 in the fine acoustics of the Belfast Free Library, 106 High Street. The theme of the winter program, “O Great Mystery,” revolves around the Missa O Magnum Mysterium by Tomás Luis de Victoria (1592), which the group will sing in its entirety. Also featured will be unaccompanied works from the thirteenth to the twenty-first century, chosen to explore the mysteries of the season and bring light to the turning of the year. A highlight will be the world premiere of Laudate Dominum, an uplifting SATB carol composed in 2015 by the group’s Music Director, John Mehrmann. In keeping with the group’s wide-ranging interest in fine unaccompanied choral music, other selections will range from sacred to secular to downright saucy by composers from Anonymous to J.S. Bach to Vaughan Williams.

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