Holiday Concert, Holiday Reception & More This Week

Here's what's up in and just outside Darien this week:

• Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.: "The Darien High School Music Department will be presenting their “musical gift to the community” with a Holiday Spectrum Concert featuring all of the high school’s instrumental and choral ensembles in a uninterrupted one-hour program of non-stop festive holiday music."

• "Registration for winter semester classes at the Silvermine School of Art begins [Monday] Dec. 16. Classes are offered in a wide variety of media, including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, ceramics, metal and stone sculpture, and glass working. Courses and workshops are available for students of all ages! The winter semester runs from January 13th-March 31st."

• "The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum's Board of Trustees will hold a Holiday Reception [at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday] which will be open to the public and feature the exhibits, A Grand Display of Holiday Traditions: Victorian Era Presents and Decorations [...] and Two Connecticut Painters: From Impressionism to Regionalism. [...] [T]he Mansion’s Reception will feature pianist Peter DeMarco performing Broadway classics and holiday standards. Guests will be able to walk around throughout the first floor of the Museum and view the contemporary decorations and the two exhibits currently on view. Cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and desserts" will be there for the taking. 

• "Father Dennis M. Corrado, c.o., who New York Magazine called "One of the best preachers in New York City" in 2009, will present a special Advent mission [...] in Greenwich on Monday, Dec. 16, Tuesday, Dec. 17, and Wednesday, Dec. 18 2013 at 7:30 p.m. The mission [is] titled "The Pope’s Blueprint: Living the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy,” [...] The Works of Mercy are written tenets found throughout Christianity and have been traditionally divided into two categories; the Corporal Works of Mercy, which concern the material needs of others, and the Spiritual Works of Mercy, which concern the spiritual needs of others."