Songs of the Season at Met Museum: Robert Sirota, Choristers, Nadia Sirota, Mellissa Hughes

• Performing Arts

Music for the holidays by composer Robert Sirota will be featured in a special holiday concert, Songs of the Season, presented by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.

The Met Museum Presents concert will include performances by The Choristers of The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine led by conductor Malcolm J. Merriweather, soprano Mellissa Hughes, violist Nadia Sirota, and harpist Victoria Drake.

The evening features Robert Sirota’s resetting of “In the Bleak Midwinter,” the touching Christina Rossetti poem; his arrangement of the Sephardic Hanukah song “Ocho Kandelikas” (world premiere); two arrangements of the traditional Christmas songs “Twelve Days” and “Three Ships” (world premiere) and a new work called “Christmas Past” (world premiere) which draws on material Sirota and his family recorded on cassette tapes as audio Christmas cards in 1991 and 1992.