WILMINGTON — Fables, fairy tales and nursery rhymes will be performed as part of in-person and virtual  concerts at Winterthur Museum this month. 

The concerts — hosted by the museum and the Choir School of Delaware, a music and academic-enrichment program serving some of Wilmington's most vulnerable youth — will be performed by the school's intergenerational choir. 

Concerts will be held April 25 at noon, 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. in person. The virtual performance is at 4 p.m. 

This is the Choir School of Delaware's second concert as Winterthur’s artists in residence. The performance will include fables, fairy tales and nursery rhymes with musical twists, including selections from Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods.”

The choir’s current season, “We Tell the Story,” was carefully curated as a means of necessary literacy intervention for Choir School students, officials said in a news release.

“With students missing nearly 65% of in-school time due to COVID-19, we have decided to focus on developing literacy and comprehension," Arreon A. Harley-Emerson, director of music and operations for the Choir School, said in a prepared statement. "We know our students love to sing, so we have crafted a season that will allow them to improve literacy skills while learning and performing fun choral repertoire."

The Choir School of Delaware has been critically acclaimed as one of the region’s most sought-after choral ensembles, performing continuously as an intergenerational chorus since 1883, according to the news release. In recent years, the Choir School has been featured in regional and national choral conferences, commissioned works from composers such as Philip W.J. Stopford and Rollo Dilworth and collaborated with internationally acclaimed groups like VOCES8 and The Swingles.

Tickets are on sale now, online or by calling 888-4600.

Email info@choirschoolofdelaware.org with any further questions about virtual events or physical-distancing procedures.