Gather with friends, family and neighbors under the sparkling branches of the annual Copper Beech Tree Lighting and indoors by the warmth of art at the Portland Museum of Art on First Friday. Oratorio Chorale will present excerpts and sing-along carols from their family-friendly concert Sing We Noël, with festivities beginning at 6:00 p.m., and the tree lighting at 6:30 p.m.

Oratorio Chorale will be joined by The Telling Room reciting nature and seasonally inspired poems to welcome the spirit of the season, and you can access exclusive store discounts and festive treats.

PMA Tree Lighting

Portland Museum of Art

Performed by Maine’s storied Oratorio Chorale, Antidote offers a harmonic respite from today’s inharmonious world. Experience time suspended by Gregorian chants. 

Be surrounded by the soulful music of Duruflé. Feel the spiritual embrace of James Kennerley on the organ. Let storyteller SeifAllah Salotto-Cristobal’s immersive light show soothe and stimulate you. Be present with us for Antidote, an evening of clarity, community and calm.

Antidote

Bowdoin College Chapel

Cathedral Church of St. Luke

What is home? Featuring the music of composer Judd Greenstein and the words of your fourth- and fifth-grade neighbors from Portland’s Reiche Community School, this full-length concert work, featuring Classical Uprising’s symphonic chorus, Oratorio Chorale, is a musical portrait of our state, told by the children who are transforming it.

Oratorio Chorale

Dec 5, 2025

PMA Tree Lighting

Oct 18 - Nov 1, 2025

Antidote

Oratorio Chorale