Spring 2018

Styles of choral composition differ widely beween the turn of the seventeenth century and the turn of the twenty-first — yet what these two eras share is that each witnessed a new flowering of composers of genius and a profusion of new choral music that arose from their common muse. We can find similarities between choral music of the first era and that of the second: for, in this program, a choral work by a composer of the first era is paired with a strikingly similar choral work by a composer of the second — John Wilbye with Julian Wachner, William Byrd with Charlotte Bray, Thomas Vautor with Abbie Betinis, G. P. da Palestrina with Ola Gjeilo, Thomas Morley with Ēriks Ešenvalds, and Claudin de Sermisy with Eric Whitacre.