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CHRISTMAS IN WALES

You can hardly walk into a theater this month without stumbling into A Christmas Carol. But what about that other holiday classic, Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales? As it happens, the Handel and Haydn Society has an actual Welshman at the helm, music director Grant Llewellyn, and he’ll be reading from Thomas’s story and leading the H&H forces in selections from their new album, All Is Bright — music by Praetorius, Sweelinck, Howells, William Walton, Charles Ives, Virgil Thomson, Ned Rorem, Daniel Pinkham, and more — in "Christmas in Wales," at Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston | December 18 @ 3 pm + December 21 @ 8 pm | $33-$47 | 617.262.1815 or http://www.handelandhaydn.org/.

CHRISTMAS IN AMERICA

Okay, Revels is doing Christmas in 1399 Derbyshire, Handel and Haydn is off in Wales — what about us here in the USA? Even though its new holiday disc is called A Mediterranean Christmas, the Boston Camerata is celebrating this year with "An American Christmas," its popular program of "colonial hymns and anthems from New England, Shaker songs, country spirituals, and religious ballads." Three performances: First Congregational Church, 11 Garden St, Cambridge | December 16 @ 8 pm | First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St, Boston | December 17 @ 8 pm | Hancock Church of Christ, 1912 Mass Ave, Lexington | December 18 @ 3 pm | $22-$42 | 866.427.2092 or http://www.bostoncamerata.com/.

CALLING ALL GRAPE NUTS

Oenophiles unite at the 15th annual Boston Wine Expo, where 440 international and domestic wineries from 13 countries will be showcasing some 1800 different wines. If you can’t find something you like, we suggest — without prejudice — that you try Sam Adams. That’s at the Seaport World Trade Center and Seaport Hotel, 1 Seaport Lane, Boston | January 28-29: 1-5 pm | $70 Sat; $60 Sun; $95 two-day pass | 877.946.3976.