BRUNSWICK — Tickets are now available for St. Cecilia Chamber Choir’s annual “Ceremony of Lessons and Carols” on Dec. 7 and 8.

The Friday night concert will be at 7:30 p.m. at Newcastle’s Second Congregational Church. On Saturday the choirperformsa4p.m.concert at Bowdoin College Chapel in Brunswick.

The choir will sing carols and anthems, both old and new, interspersed with readings from poetry and scripture. The concert includes a candle-lighting ceremony featuring Benji Pugh, 9, and his sister, Phoebe Pugh, 12, of Alna who attend Great Salt Bay School and St. Andrew’s Church, where they sing in the Youth Choir. Their parents are Alex and Lili Pugh.

Many traditional pieces will be performed, as well as works by composers from the 13th to the 21st centuries. Among them, William Byrd, Felix Mendelssohn, William Mathias, John Mason Neale, and contemporary composers Stephen Cleobury and Sir David Willcocks.

Mid-coast resident Richard Francis wrote the Advent carol, “People, Look east,” as a commission from St. Andrew’s Church, Newcastle, for their Senior Choir back in 2001. Following the pattern established a hundred years ago by the famed choir of King’s College in Cambridge, England, the “Ceremony of Lessons and Carols” will include a number of carols that the audience will be invited to sing along with the choir.

Tickets are available at Maine Coast Book Shop in Damariscotta and Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick, as well as online at www.CeciliaChoir.org.

For more information, call Stephen White at 315-0878 or Linda Blanchard at 380-2768.