Winter 2019

Choral music for the year’s end, by Bach, Brahms, and Verdi. We will present James MacMillan’s O Radiant Dawn, and Kirke Mechem’s Island in Space -- a choral setting of the poem written by astronaut Rusty Schweickart upon contemplating the Earth from space during the Apollo 9 Mission in March 1968. Also: carols and motets by Gregor Aichinger, Ola Gjeilo, Libby Larsen, Cecilia McDowall, Claudio Monteverdi, and Philip Stopford.

Program

Libby Larsen (1950-) – A Simple Gloria

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) – Cantate Domino canticum novum

Ola Gjeilo (1978–) – The First Nowell

Philip Stopford (1977-) – Coventry Carol

Cecilia McDowall (1951-) – Now may we singen

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) – Pezzi sacri. Ave Maria

Gregor Aichinger (1564-1628) – Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius

James MacMillan (1959-) – O radiant dawn

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) – Motet, op. 74. O Heiland, reiss die Himmel auf

Kirke Mechem (1925-) – Island in Space

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) – Motet, BWV 225. Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied

Schedule

  • CAMBRIDGE

    5pm Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019
    University Lutheran Church
    66 Winthrop Street
    Cambridge, MA

  • Brookline

    8pm Friday, Dec. 13, 2019
    Church of our Saviour
    25 Monmouth Street
    Brookline, MA

  • Boston

    5pm Sunday, Dec. 15, 2019
    First Lutheran Church of Boston
    Berkeley & Marlborough Streets
    Boston, MAn goes here

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