Choral Reflections: Human experience, as revealed in polyphonic vocal music from six centuries

Spring 2014

Program

Claudio Monteverdi  (1567-1643)

Luci serene e chiare  (Calm and clear Eyes)
Io mi son giovinetta  (I am a young Girl)
Dolente partita  (Sorrowful Parting)

Thomas Morley (1557-1603?) – Arise, awake

Thomas Weelkes (c. 1575-1623) – As Vesta was, from Latmos Hill descending

John Bennet (active 1599-1614) – All Creatures now are merryminded

Carlo Gesualdo (c. 1560-1613)

Asciugate i begli occhi  (Dry your lovely Eyes)
Moro, lasso (I die, alas)

Robert Lucas Pearsall  (1795-1856) – Great God of Love

Edward Elgar  (1857-1934)

There is sweet Music
Lux aeterna

Abbie Betinis (1980-) – The Waking

Gian-Carlo Menotti (1911-2007) – The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore, or The Three Sundays of a Poet

Schedule

  • Concord

    8pm Friday, April 4, 2014
    First Parish in Concord
    20 Lexington Road
    Concord, MA

  • Cambridge

    6pm Sunday, April 6, 2014
    University Lutheran Church
    66 Winthrop Street
    Cambridge, MA

  • Boston

    8pm Friday, April 11, 2014
    First Lutheran Church of Boston
    Berkeley & Marlborough Streets
    Boston, MA

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