Tenth Season 2008–2009
Guillaume Du Fay, Savoy & the island of Cyprus
Friday, March 13, 2009 at 8 pm
A program exploring connections between Du Fay, the court of Savoy, a musical manuscript from the French Cypriot court, and a 1434 wedding attended by Binchois and the Burgundian chapel—introduced by the world’s leading scholar of Du Fay.
Free pre-concert talk at 7:15 by Alejandro Enrique Planchart (Professor Emeritus, University of California)
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For the Bird
Friday, May 15, 2009 at 6 pm
Celebrate with Blue Heron at its spring fundraiser! An evening of fun and fabulous food! Featuring silent and live auctions, and music by Scott Metcalfe and Blue Heron singers.
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FREE PARKING for Cambridge concerts! New location!
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Music from the Peterhouse partbooks:
Tallis, Taverner, Aston & Jones
Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 3 pm
Bowdoin Chapel, Bowdoin College, Brunswick ME
www.bowdoin.edu
Perotin / Josquin:
Christmas in French-speaking lands, 1200 & 1500
Sunday, December 21, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Grace Church, Providence RI
Presented by Museum Concerts, www.museumconcerts.org
Guillaume Du Fay, Savoy & the island of Cyprus
Sunday, March 15, 2009 at 2 pm
Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash Street, Manchester NH 03104
www.currier.org
Perotin / Josquin:
Christmas in French-speaking lands, 1200 & 1500
Saturday, December 20, 2008 at 8 pm
Come celebrate a Heron Holiday! Before intermission, Christmas motets by Josquin and his Franco-Flemish contemporaries, c. 1500; in the second half, the astonishing sounds of polyphony at Notre Dame de Paris, c. 1200.
Free pre-concert talk at 7:15 by Sean Gallagher (Harvard University)
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Music from the Peterhouse partbooks:
Tallis, Taverner, Aston & Jones
Friday, October 24, 2008 at 8 pm
Our annual fall exploration of early 16th-century English music, featuring Jones’s Magnificat, splendid votive antiphons by Tallis, Taverner, and Aston, and a garland of secular songs.
Free pre-concert talk at 7:15 by Christopher Martin (Boston University)
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Workshop
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Sing 16th-century English music under the direction of Scott Metcalfe. Open to all, but please pre-register.
10:00 am-2:30 pm (box lunch provided)
First Parish of Watertown, Unitarian Universalist
35 Church Street, Watertown
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