Featured on the program will be Antonio Vivaldi’s beloved “Gloria in D†featuring the 35-voice choir and chamber orchestra and soloists Rachelle Fox, Diane Plaster and Sara Campbell. Members of a brass quintet from the orchestra will join the choir and organist Roger Daggy for a performance of Daniel Pinkham’s American Christmas classic, his Christmas Cantata. The brass quintet will also present arrangements of carols and other seasonal works and join with the choir in music from the Venetian polychoral tradition by Gabrieli, Monteverdi and Schütz.
St. Matthew’s Church is located at 1031 Bienveneda Avenue in Pacific Palisades. Admission to the concert is $35. Tickets and other information are available at www.MusicGuildOnline.org or by calling 310-573-7422.