Christmas Festival Looks to the Stars

Westmont’s Third Annual Christmas Festival has sold out. The program will feature traditional and contemporary holiday music performed by Westmont’s Chamber Orchestra and multiple choirs, as well as dance, dramatic readings and visual art. There will be performances at First United Methodist Church, 305 East Anapamu (at Garden Street): Friday, Nov. 30, and Saturday, Dec. 1, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 2, at 3 p.m.

Celestial images from Westmont’s Keck telescope will be projected on the ceiling and walls as performers celebrate the theme “The Heavens Are Telling the Glory of God.”

The audience will be invited to join in singing traditional carols. Other highlights will include the Christmas Oratorio “Jauchzet Frohlocket” by Johann Sebastian Bach, “Verbum caro factum est” by Hans Leo Hassler, and “The Heavens Are Telling” from Franz Joseph Haydn’s “The Creation.”

For more information please call: (805)  565-7140.