Fall concert season continues

The Department of Music fall concerts continue with the Early Music Ensemble this weekend, and, then, four concerts, four days in a row, Nov. 30 to Dec. 3. A free Noon Concert is included in the lineup.

• Early Music Ensemble — Thomas Tallis' Three Motets (O nata lux, Salvator mundi, O sacrum convivium); Nicholas Ludford's Motet Ave Maria, ancilla trinitatis; John Taverner's Sanctus and Agnus Dei from the Missa Gloria tibi trinitas; and William Byrd's Consort Music (performed by the Faire Violls Consort). 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 21, St. Martin's Episcopal Church, 640 Hawthorne Lane, Davis. Suggested donations at the door: $12 adults, $6 students and children.

• Baroque Ensemble — Phebe Craig and Michael Sand, co-directors. Free. 12:05 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 30, 115 Music Building.

The next three concerts are ticketed events, with tickets available through the box office at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. See below for details.

• Concert Band and University of the Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble: 1860s and 1960s — A musical exploration of two decades in America — each marred by war, division and tragedy, and distinguished by heroic leaders and great progress for civil rights. Pete Nowlen directs the UC Davis Concert Band, and Eric Hammer directs the UOP Symphonic Wind Ensemble. 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 1, Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center.

The program:

• Zdechlik — Celebration
• Albeniz — Feast Day at Seville (arranged by Calliet)
• Ellerby — Paris Sketches
• Alford-Seitz — The World is Waiting for the Sunrise
• Stamp — Cenotaph (Jon Pwu, student conductor)
• Zdechlik — Images of Aura Lee
• Bass — A New Birth of Freedom (Bill Hollingshead, narrator)
• Holsinger — On an American Spiritual
• Curnow — JFK in Memoriam
• Wilson — To Set the Darkness Echoing
• Reed — Rushmore

• Symphony Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra Works — Mozart's Overture to La clemenza di Tito; Elgar's Sospiri, op. 70; Mahler's Adagietto from Symphony No. 5; and Schubert's Symphony No. 3 in D Major. Christian Baldini, music director and conductor. 7 p.m. Dec. 2, Jackson Hall.

• University Chorus, with Artist-in-Residence Ian Howell, countertenor — Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and Missa Brevis; Conte's O Salutaris Hostia and Tantum Ergo; Ortiz's Gallos (premiere); Finzi's "My Lovely One" and "God is Gone Up" from Three Anthems; and Rutter's Musica Dei Donum. Jeffrey Thomas, conductor. 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3, Jackson Hall.

Tickets for the three concerts in Jackson Hall are available at the Mondavi Center box office. Hours are noon to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and one hour before all ticketed events. You can also order by telephone, (530) 754-2787 or (866) 754-2787, and online.