The Loyola Alumni Association will sponsor a reception immediately following the concert. The annual concert is a mixture of classical Christmas music and treatments of more popular Christmas songs. The Loyola University Chorale, the Loyola Chamber Orchestra, and organist Carmen Leerstang will perform selections from Vivaldi's Gloria. The Loyola Brass ensemble will perform Leroy Anderson's A Christmas Festival arranged by Joseph Hebert. The Loyola Chamber Orchestra will perform Anderson's Suite of Carol for String Orchestra.
Admission is free and open to the public.
This year's event will again have a secondary function as a food drive. Although admission is free, audience members are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items as a donation to the Second Harvesters food bank.