Paul Cohen, a collector of rare saxophones, will bring some of his collection to the Christmas concert at Arlington High School for a “show-and-tell,” including some unusual examples that Brellochs describes as looking “like they’re right out of a Dr. Seuss book.” Cohen’s collection is so good, he adds, “When the Metropolitan Museum of Art had a special exhibit on the saxophone a few years ago, they borrowed instruments from him.”

When composer George Frideric Handel debuted this oratorio in 1742, the reception was modest. But in the years the followed, it grew into one of the best-loved and most-performed choral works in Western music.

According to the tradition that has evolved, any musician can play in a TubaChristmas concert as long as he or she plays an instrument in the tuba family. It’s a sort of collective catharsis of the simmering frustration of always being the poor stepchildren of the orchestra’s wind section

Everett Bradley of the E Street Band brings his funkified holiday classics to Hudson

Nellie McKay, with special guest Timothy Dark, performs at the Towne Crier Café in Beacon on Friday, December 9 at 8:30 p.m. Tickets cost $30. The Towne Crier is located at 379 Main Street in Beacon. For tickets and additional information, visit www.townecrier.com.