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The Music at Noon concert series at Lexington Presbyterian Church will offer three Thursday programs of music for Advent and Christmas, on Dec. 5, 12 and 19.
The Music at Noon series of half-hour concerts has been offered for decades at Lexington Presbyterian Church, and often presents music corresponding to the church year. Many concerts display the church’s C. B. Fisk pipe organ, opus 128 (2007).
The Dec. 5 program will present organist William McCorkle in a short program of music for Advent and Christmas, featuring compositions by J. S. Bach, Helmut Walcha, and Claude Balbastre.
On Dec. 12, McCorkle will turn to the piano to present what has become an annual tradition: a selection of extemporaneous improvisations on Christmas melodies.
On Dec. 19, tenor Scott Williamson will join McCorkle for a program of vocal and keyboard music for Christmas. Song repertoire will include compositions by the Italian baroque virtuoso singer/composer Francesca Caccini, and by the 19th-century Germans Hugo Wolf and Peter Cornelius. Each song will be offset by a keyboard composition from the same country/style.
