BRUNSWICK — St. Cecilia’s annual Ceremony of Lessons and Carols will be presented by the chamber choir tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Newcastle’s Second Congregational Church and on Saturday, Dec. 8, at 4 p.m. 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.

Among the composers featured will be the well-known “Traditional” as many of Christmas carols were written centuries ago by composers lost to time. However, composers from the 13th to the 21st centuries will be well represented, including 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 beautiful Advent carol, “People, Look East,” as a commission from St. Andrew’s Church, Newcastle, for its Senior Choir 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 St. Cecilia Chamber Choir.

Tickets may be purchased at the Maine Coast Book Shop in Damariscotta or Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick.

Tickets may also be purchased online at www.Cecilia- Choir.org.

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