CANTON -- The St. Lawrence University Laurentian Singers will present a program of 20th-century Christmas classics beginning at 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, in the Peterson-Kermani Performance Hall in the Griffiths Arts Center.

Admission is free and open to the public.

The program will open with “Song of the Earth” by contemporary Norwegian composer Frode Fjellheim, as sung in the 2013 Walt Disney Animation Studios hit film Frozen. An arrangement of the well know Silesian Hymn, “Fairest Lord Jesus,” the piece uses traditional yoik chant.

“A Ceremony of Carols” by Benjamin Britten will come from the church and concert hall repertoire, featuring the Singers’ women and pianist Barbara Phillips-Farley. This suite of settings of 15th-century English Christmas poems has become a holiday classic. The men will sing Rosphanye Powell’s gospel-like “The Word was God” and Randall Thompson’s haunting setting of Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” Morten Lauridsen’s “O Magnum Mysterium” and Steven Sametz's “Gaudete” are more recent works that will round out the section.

On the lighter side, the Singers will perform Ken Darby’s setting of the Clement Moore poem “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas,” which was made famous by Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians in a 1942 recording. One particularly famous Christmas song has a significant a St. Lawrence connection. J.K. Gannon ’24, who wrote “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” also wrote the University’s Alma Mater. Mel Torme’s seasonal hit “The Christmas Song” (chestnuts roasting on an open fire) will be paired with “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” in an arrangement by director Barry Torres.

The concert will end with a carol sing along of several seasonal favorites.

The Laurentian Singers, a select coeducational choir of 25 undergraduate singers, continues its 69-year tradition of choral excellence at St. Lawrence University during the 2014-15 academic year. The group has won wide acclaim since its founding and in addition to their many performances on campus and in the community, the ensemble has toured extensively. In recent years, they have toured in Puerto Rico, France, Washington, D.C., New York, Boston, New Orleans and Central Europe, singing for enthusiastic audiences and meeting with other choirs.