Twelfth Season 2010–2011
Featuring our regular subscription and chamber series, two concerts in New York City, a new residency, and more!
2010 Season Preview Event!
Saturday, September 25, 2010 at 6:00 pm
Chapel of the Episcopal Divinity School
Brattle & Mason Streets, Cambridge
Hear samples from our 2010-11 season repertoire, including music by Aston, Victoria, and Busnoys. The performance of each piece will be preceded by a guided tour to the music given by Scott Metcalfe and the singers. Meet the musicians, enjoy a drink and a nibble, and enjoy an intimate performance of wonderful music. All the proceeds go directly to support our musical activities.
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Ludford: Missa Regnum mundi
Aston: Gaude virgo mater Christi
Saturday, October 16, 2010 at 8 pm
The newest installment in our series of music from the Peterhouse partbooks (c.1540).
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Christmas at the Courts of 15th-century France,
Burgundy & Cyprus
Saturday, December 18, 2010 at 8 pm
Celebrate a Heron Holiday on the eve of the solstice, with chant, motets, and secular songs for Advent, Christmas, and New Year's Day.
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Music of Tomás Luis de Victoria (d. 1611)
Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 8 pm
A program of music by Victoria and other Spanish composers to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the master's death.
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A 15th-century Cabaret
Chansons by Du Fay, Binchois, Ockeghem, Busnoys, Morton, and others, drawn especially from the Chansonnier cordiforme. Five singers and three instrumentalists playing rebec, fiddles, harps, douçaine & recorder.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Keene State College
Keene, NH
(www.keene.edu/newsevents)Saturday, November 6, 2010 at 8 pm
Houghton Chapel
Wellesley College
Wellesley
(www.wellesley.edu/Music/home.html)Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 7 pm
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 8 pm
Dumbarton Oaks
Washington, DC
(www.doaks.org/public_events/concerts.html)
n.b. These concerts are not included in Blue Heron’s subscription series; they are presented by the individual institutions. Please visit the websites listed above for details, and to purchase tickets.
Christmas at the Courts of 15th-century France,
Burgundy & Cyprus
Sunday, December 19, 2010 at 4 pm
Corpus Christi Church
529 West 121st Street, New York City
Presented by Music Before 1800. Please visit www.mb1800.org for details and to purchase tickets.
Music of Tomás Luis de Victoria (d. 1611)
Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 4 pm
St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church
87th Street, New York City
between Broadway and West End Avenue
Tickets available here by September 1, 2010
We are pleased to announce a new residency in the music department at Boston College. Our activities will include two performances at St. Mary's Chapel.
www.bc.edu/schools/cas/music/calendar.html
Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 8 pm
Ludford: Missa Regnum mundi / Aston: Gaude virgo mater Christi
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at 8 pm
Music of Tomás Luis de Victoria (d. 1611)
Sing music by Victoria and others selected from our March program, under the direction of Scott Metcalfe. Open to all, but please pre-register.
Saturday, April 16, 2011 from 10:00 am - 2:30 pm
(box lunch provided)
Church of the Good Shepherd
9 Russell Ave. (corner of Mt. Auburn St.), Watertown
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FREE PARKING for Cambridge concerts!
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