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9 of our professional singers sing alongside middle and high school choristers who have learned 1-5 choruses from Handel's MESSIAH. (You and your students are invited to learn any/all choruses.) Our professional singers sing the recits and arias in between the following choruses: 

from Part ONE

And the Glory
And he shall purify

For unto us a child is born

Glory to God

from Part TWO

Hallelujah Chorus!

The entire educational concert takes about 45 minutes to perform and is usually attended by several hundred people. 

Please drop us a line at polyphonyvoicesofnewmexico@gmail.com if you are interested in bringing members of your Chorus to our December 13, 2025 10th annual Children's Messiah!

Friday, December 12th
REHEARSAL for all CHORUS members
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm at The Cathedral of St. John (318 Silver Ave SW)

Saturday, December 13th 

8:00 am - Breakfast with Santa  - FREE for all
9:00 am rehearsal with the orchestra and organ.
10:30 am 45-minute performance at The Cathedral of St. John.

Here is a link to a sample of our 2024 edition of Children's Messiah. https://youtu.be/5tWBICG0jF8

We encourage everyone to bring 2 non-perishable food items for the Cathedral's Food Pantry.  Items the pantry desperately needs include: peanut butter, canned tuna, spam, and canned chicken - no beans please. Your generosity is very much appreciated! 

We look forward to hearing from you!

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The centerpiece of the program, Holocaust Cantata: Songs from the Camps consists of 13 movements that alternate between music and readings. Based on research of original music sung by incarcerated inmates in Holocaust concentration camps, this 40-minute cantata is an emotional, musical journey through one of the bleakest episodes in human history. Working from translations of original Polish materials found in the archives of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and starting with just a single line of melody, McCullough has fashioned a haunting choral tribute to the 6 million Jews who were systematically persecuted and murdered as well as to the millions of other individuals the Nazi Party classified as “undesirables,” including Poles, Romanian gypsies, homosexuals, transsexuals, political opponents, religious dissidents, the mentally ill and the physically disabled. What emerges from the insanity of one of history’s worst examples of man’s inhumanity to man is a sense of music’s life-affirming powers.