In the coming days, choirs, carolers, organists...

In the coming days, choirs, carolers, organists and orchestras will fill the Southland with the melodies of the winter holidays. The following are some seasonal musical offerings:

* The premiere of “Rorate Coeli,”a choral piece by local composer Paul Gibson, will be given by the Schola Cantorum of St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church at its annual Christmas concert at 8 p.m. Sunday at the church. Frank Brownsteadwill conduct the performance. The choral groups of Mt. St. Mary’s College will also perform. The requested donation is $10 for senior citizens and students, $20 for families. 10750 Ohio Ave., Westwood. (310) 474-1527.

* Los Angeles Master Chorale music director Paul Salamunovich will conduct the St. Charles BorromeoChoir in its performance of Christmas carols at 3 p.m. Sunday at Corpus Christi Church in Pacific Palisades. Robert Hunter will be the accompanist. 15100 Sunset Blvd. Donations accepted. (310) 454-1328.

* Organist Scott Schlesingerand flutist Brian Logan will perform a program at 4 p.m. Sunday at Hollywood United Methodist Church. Free parking. A $6 donation is requested. 6817 Franklin Ave. (213) 874-2104.

* More than 150 voices, accompanied by a festival orchestra, will perform familiar carols and classics when St. John’s Lutheran Church in Orange presents “The Sounds of Christmas” at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday. William J. Heide conducts. Donations accepted. 185 S. Center St. (714) 288-4400.

* First Congregational Church of Los Angeles presents Lloyd Holzgrafin a program of organ music for the Christmas season at 4 p.m. Sunday. The mid-Wilshire church, which houses one of the largest pipe organs on the West Coast, will be decorated with evergreens for this annual event. Tickets are $10. 540 S. Commonwealth Ave. (213) 385-1341.

* The Los Angeles Yiddish Culture Club presents a Hanukkah concert at 7:30 tonight at the Institute of Jewish Education in Los Angeles. Liza Libovskywill sing Yiddish, Hebrew and Ladinosongs. Admission is $4. 8339 West 3rd St. (310) 275-8455.

* The Loyola Marymount University music department presents its annual Gala Christmas Choral Concert at 8 p.m. Wednesday and Friday in the university’s Sacred Heart Chapel. The school’s Consort Singers, Concert Choir and women’s and men’s choruses will perform seasonal works by Palestrina, Grancini, Buxtehude, Michael Haydn, Praetorius, Mendelssohn, Mathias and Stroope under the leadership of Mary C. Breden For ticket information, call (310) 338-5154 or (310) 338-7588.

* An old-fashioned sing-along and a performance of Christmas classics by the Santa Clarita Valley Concert Band will make up the program at 4 p.m. Sunday in the sanctuary of Panorama Presbyterian Church. Donations accepted. 14201 Roscoe Blvd., Panorama City. (818) 894-8316.

* Academy Award-winning director Delbert Mannand screen actress Christopher Norris will be the featured guest readers of the scriptural Christmas story at “A Christmas Celebration,” a benefit concert by the Choral Society of Southern California and Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church’s Chancel Choir and Orchestra at 8 p.m. Thursday at the church. Nick Strimplewill direct selections by Bruckner, Haydn, Wagenseil and Tchaikovsky, as well as works by contemporary composers. Tickets are $20 each or $35 per pair; proceeds go to local outreach programs. 505 N. Rodeo Drive. For reservations and information, call (310) 271-5194.

* A concert of children’s choir music, titled “Three Wee Kings,” will be presented at 5 p.m. Sunday at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach. Donations will be accepted. Four performances by the church’s 110-voice Sanctuary Choir and 30-piece orchestra will also be given at 8 p.m. Friday and Dec. 16 and at 4 p.m. Dec. 11 and 18. The music includes Ralph Vaughan William’s “Fantasia on Christmas Carols” and “Fantasia on Greensleeves” and many other selections. There will be a sing-along of some carols. Tickets are $5, children $3. Tickets must be ordered in advance at (714) 574-2228.

* The New Horizon Singers and the Pacific Pops Orchestra, conducted by Sheldon Cohen, present “Peace on Earth,” a holiday concert to benefit Angels Way Maternity Home, at 7:30 p.m. next Saturday at St. Bernardine of Siena Church. Admission is $12, senior citizens and children $10. 24410 Calvert St., Woodland Hills. (818) 865-9247.

* “A Holiday Celebration” in song and dance will be held at the University of Judaism’s Gindi Auditorium at 8:30 p.m. next Saturday and at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Dec. 11. It features the university’s Concert Singers and the Keshet Chaim Dance Ensemble. Tova Morcosdirects Yiddish and other Jewish music; the dancers will perform classical Russian dances. For ticket information, call (310) 476-9777, Ext. 246.

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* Judith Kates, a professor of comparative literature and co-editor of “Reading Ruth--Contemporary Women Reclaim a Sacred Story,” based upon the Book of Ruth, will address themes of marriage, children, infertility and widowhood at a brunch celebrating the fourth anniversary of “Women’s Voices” at 10:30 a.m. Dec. 11, at Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel. Also participating will be Rabbinic scholar and educator Rabbi Ruth Sohn Los Angeles City Councilwoman Laura Chick, psychologist Barbara Stephens and actress Bonnie Franklin. “Women’s Voices,” a project of the New Israel Fund, works to broaden awareness about women’s issues in Israel. Reservations are required. For ticket prices, call (310) 559-9334.

* Rabbi Nachum Sauer director of the Institute of Advanced Talmudic Studies at Yeshiva of Los Angeles will be honored at the institution’s fund-raising dinner at 7:30 p.m. next Saturday at Moshe Ganz Hall in Los Angeles. The guest speaker will be Jewish legal scholar Rabbi DovidCohen of Brooklyn. s For ticket information, call (310) 553-4478, Ext. 285.

* Mt. Hebron Baptist Church will have a holiday bazaar from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. next Saturday at the church, 10219 S. Western Ave., Los Angeles. (213) 757-2421.