Sheepscot Chorus invites you to join us as we begin rehearsals on Tuesday, Sept. 8 in Wiscasset for our Saturday and Sunday, December 5 and 6 Boothbay Harbor holiday concerts, featuring Joseph Haydn's charming "St. Nicholas Mass," performed with orchestra, and conducted by artistic director Linda Blanchard. "Missa Sancti Nicolai" was written for the Dec. 6 Feast of St. Nicholas nameday of Haydn's patron, Prince Nicolaus Esterházy, and was one of the first vocal works that Haydn composed. The short mass setting has intimate, cozy instrumentation and lilting melodies that call to mind Christmas and pastoral music. Haydn painted a...