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Past Seasons
2009-2010

Fall 2009
New Songs for Midwinter
Choral music of winter and Advent from the 16th, 17th, 18th, 20th, and 21st centuries

Read a review of this program at The Boston Musical Intelligencer.

Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009; 5 pm
University Lutheran Church
66 Winthrop Street
Cambridge, MA

Friday, Dec. 18, 2009; 8 pm
First Lutheran Church of Boston
Berkeley & Marlborough Streets
Boston, MA

Cantate Domino
Domine Dominus noster
Verbum caro factum est  

Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612)

Yver, vous n'êtes qu'un villain

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Cedit, Hyems (Begone, Winter)
     on poems from the 5th and 14th centuries
     with Vanessa Holroyd, flute

Abbie Betinis (b.1980)

Lux aurumque
     on a poem by Edward Esch

Eric Whitacre (b.1970)

A Hymn of the Nativity
     on a poem by Richard Crashaw, 17th century

Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)

Gloria in excelsis Deo RV 589
    with an ensemble of period instruments

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

O Sing unto the Lord
    with an ensemble of period instruments

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

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Spring 2010
From France: Choral Celebrations
in chants, motets, choral songs, and Requiems

Read a review of this program at The Tech.

Sunday, April 11, 2010; 3:30 pm
Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church
1555 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA

Saturday, April 17, 2010; 8 pm
First Church in Boston
66 Marlborough Street
Boston, MA

Missa pro defunctis (Requiem)

Antoine Brumel (ca. 1460-ca. 1515)

Motets pour un temps de pénitence; Petites prières
     de Saint François d’Assise (selections)

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

Trois chansons de Charles d'Orléans

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Quatre motets sur des thèmes grégoriens

Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)

Trois chansons

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Requiem, op. 48, D minor
     with Balint Karosi, organ

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)

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