Do You Hear What I Hear? All season long

Memphis Symphony Orchestra’s Memphis Messiah with the Rhodes MasterSingers Chorale:

7:30 p.m. at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, 255 North Main. Tickets: $15-$25. Call 901-537-2525 or go to memphissymphony.org.

Simply Christmas with Adams Avenue Camerata Men’s Ensemble:

7 p.m. at St. Anne Catholic Church, 706 S. Highland. Tickets: $10. Call 901-299-2601 or go to adamsavenuecamerata.org.

DEC. 15

Holidays aren’t really holidays unless there are herald angels singing, 11 pipers piping, many bells jingling, trumpets sounding and hallelujahs abounding.

These joyful noises take the season to another level.

“Music lifts people up and raises the water table of goodness in the world,” says Jean Mathews, executive director of

DeltaCap-

which presents its annual Christmas show Sunday at the Germantown Performing Arts Centre.

The all-male vocal band has done several Christmas concerts and will have new tunes on the program. The concert also serves as a CD release event for its first full-length CD of (naturally) holiday songs. Also appearing with DeltaCappella is the RSVP Chorus, another local vocal ensemble.

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Memphis Symphony Orchestra Home for the Holidays Pops Concert

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on Dec. 8, led by former associate conductor Stilian Kirov and with guest appearances by singer Alexis Grace, the U-Dig Dance Group and the Memphis Symphony Chorus.

Grace, a former “American Idol” contestant and performer in musical theater productions around