Observer Editor, Free
“Christmas Eve Festival Prelude”: St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church.
St. Andrew’s music director Deborah Friauff directs the church’s adult choir and soloists, accompanied by a U-M faculty and student woodwind sextet, in a rarely performed gem, Ottorino Respighi’s 1930 cantata Lauda per la Natività del Signore. 10 p.m., St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 306 N. Division. Free. 663–0518.