Candlelight Classics on Dec. 2 and 9

TEMECULA – Continuing their tradition of festive chamber concerts to ring in the holidays, Temecula Presents and the California Chamber Orchestra present the annual “Candlelight Classics” performances at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 2 and Sunday, Dec. 9 in the Club at the Merc, Old Town Temecula Community Theater. For these performances, the Merc is dressed in its holiday finery and bathed in candlelight. It’s the perfect atmosphere for chamber music.

The program features Antonio Vivaldi’s incomparable “The Four Seasons,” a series of four violin concertos that are some of the best-known exampl...