Spring 2016
Choral Reincarnations: old Latin lives anew in choral music of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Ola Gjeilo

Program

The Mass, an antiphon, and a 14th-century secular fantasy spring to life again in the Mass in G Minor, The Spherses, Ubi Caritas, Unicornis Captivatur, and Phoenix. We will also sing earlier and contrasting settings of the same texts, by Palestrina, Duruflé, Byrd, and an anonymous composer of the medieval Engelberg Codex.

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Mass in G Minor

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525?-1594)
Kyrie eleison from Missa Papae Marcelli

Ola Gjeilo (1978–)
The Spheres
Ubi caritas
Unicornis captivatur
Phoenix

Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)
Ubi caritas

William Byrd (ca. 1539-1623)
Agnus Dei from Mass for Five Voices

Schedule

8 pm Saturday, Mar. 19, 2016
University Lutheran Church
66 Winthrop Street
Cambridge, MA

5 pm Sunday, Apr. 3, 2016
First Parish in Concord
20 Lexington Road
Concord, MA

8 pm Friday, Apr. 8, 2016
First Church Somerville UCC
89 College Ave.
Somerville, MA

5 pm Sunday, Apr. 10, 2016
First Lutheran Church of Boston
299 Berkeley Street
Boston, MA

Spring 2016 Choral Reincarnations: old Latin lives anew in choral music of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Ola Gjeilo

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Spring 2016
Choral Reincarnations: old Latin lives anew in choral music of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Ola Gjeilo