Winter 2017
The age-old familiar story of the Nativity, as told from many perspectives:
immortal words of the scriptures, set to immaculate choral music by six composers of the late Renaissance and early Baroque...
the evocative poetry of Richard Crashaw, a near-contemporary of Shakespeare, set for choral voices by Kenneth Leighton: A Hymn of the Nativity...
the foreboding poetry of Laurie Lee, a 20th-century British poet, set for choral voices by Samuel Barber: Twelfth Night...
the poetry of a handful of 17th-century Lutheran theologians, brought together as the text of Bach’s Cantata BWV 40: Dazu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes.
Program
Tomás Luis de Victoria (ca. 1548-1611) – Ne timeas, Maria
Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612) – Dixit Maria ad angelum
Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612) – Hodie Christus natus est
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525?-1594) – O magnum mysterium
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621) – Angelus ad pastores ait
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525?-1594) – Quem vidistis, pastores
Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594) – Videntes stellam
Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988) – A Hymn of the Nativity
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) – Twelfth night
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) – Dazu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes (BWV 40)
Schedule
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Cambridge
8pm Friday, Dec. 1, 2017
University Lutheran Church
66 Winthrop Street
Cambridge, MA -
Brookline
5pm Sunday, Dec. 3, 2017
Church of Our Saviour
25 Monmouth Street
Brookline, MA -
Boston
8pm Saturday, Dec. 9, 2017
First Lutheran Church of Boston
Berkeley & Marlborough Streets
Boston, MA