MARQUETTE — Marquette Choral Society will begin its Fall 2024 season with its first rehearsal and membership sign-up at 7 p.m. Monday in the Choral Room in the Thomas Fine Arts Building on the NMU campus.

No audition is required. Members may join Monday, Sept. 9 and Sept. 16. (No rehearsal on Labor Day) Registration starts at 6 p.m., before rehearsal from 7 to 9 p.m. Fees and music costs are $65. Some scholarships are available. Choral Society is also available for NMU Credit.

This semester’s concerts will be Dec. 7 and 8, in the Reynolds Recital Hall. The featured work will be John Rutter’s “Magnificat,” with soprano soloist Amanda Boundy and the chamber orchestra. Other winter-themed works will include “On a Winter’s Night” by Karen P. Thomas; “Ave Maria” by Javier Busto; “The Rune of Hospitality” by Alf Hakoum; “Winter Suite: Six Songs Without Words, Opus 19…With Words,” based on music by Felix Mendelssohn and text by Laurie Betts Hughes; and “Christmas is Coming” arranged by Mack Wilberg with four hand piano accompaniment.

Members will also have the opportunity to perform with the Marquette Symphony Orchestra on Dec. 14, as well as at the Community Christmas Sing-along on Dec. 20.

For more information, please visit www.facebook.com/MarquetteChoralSociety, www.marquettechoralsociety.org, or email choralsociety906@gmail.com.