Not ready to deck the halls? Here are three concerts for you

There’s no harm in singing holiday songs before Thanksgiving, as Tara Lynn Johnson says. Still, if you’d like a non-holiday interlude before the annual holiday music onslaught, here are three events that may help you keep in touch with other musical possibilities. On December 1, one of our best local chamber series, 1807 & Friends, will devote an entire concert to music for harp, violin, and cello by Mozart, Fauré, and other highly esteemed creative geniuses. On December 5 and 6, the Tempesta di Mare Baroque Orchestra explores the musical relationship between J.S. Bach, his good son C.P.E., and C.P.E’s godfather, Georg Phillipp Telemann. On December 7, flutist Mimi Stillman’s Dolce Suono Ensemble will present Mimi and Friends in a vocal and instrumental program devoted to “Music of Spirit, Longing, and Passion” by a roster of composers that starts with Bach and ends with the pianist for the program, the redoubtable Charles Abramovic. Fortified by any one of these events — or all three — you may plunge without fear into orgies of odes to heralding angels, Hanukkah dreidels, and bulb-nosed reindeer.

1807 & Friends will present “Trio Montage” on December 1 at 7:30pm at the Helen Corning Warden Theater at the Academy of Vocal Arts, 1920 Spruce Street, Philadelphia. Tickets are $17, and they’re available by calling 215-438-4027 or at the door. Visit online for more information.

Tempesta di Mare will present “Tempesta plays 2 Bachs & Telemann” on December 5 at 8pm at the American Philosophical Society, 427 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia and December 6 at 8pm at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, 8855 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia. Tickets are $34 for preferred seating and $24 for general, and they’re available by calling 215-755-8776, clicking here, or at the door.

The Dolce Suono Ensemble will present “Music of Spirit, Longing, and Passion” on December 7 at 3pm at Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church, 412 Pine Street, Philadelphia. Tickets are $25 ($20 for seniors and $10 for students), and they’re available online, by calling 267-252-1803, or at the door.