 BCE’s 2011–2012 Season
The Boston Choral Ensemble’s 11th season continues our growing tradition of innovative programs that celebrate the vast range of our choral tradition. This year is an especially important year as the Ensemble welcomes new artistic director Andrew Shenton.
Be sure to join us this year as we welcome Andrew and celebrate his new leadership with four fantastic concerts.
Vertue
18|20 November 2011
Our opening concert celebrates the 400th anniversary of the death of Tomás Luis de Victoria with a performance of his 12-voice Missa Ascendens Christus, combined with music by award-winning contemporary British composer Judith Weir.
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2nd Annual Choral Holiday
17 December 2011
Join BCE and the Choirs of Marlborough High School for a concert of music to celebrate the holidays, including carols for congregation and organ.
Butterfly Dreams
9|11 March 2012
We explore the dream state with evocative music by Eric Whitacre (including Sleep and Leonardo dreams of his flying machine), Butterfly Dreams by John Tavener; Judith Weir’s a blue true dream of sky and madrigals by Dowland and others.
Chichester
June 2012
This concert features works commissioned by Dean Walter Hussey for Chichester Cathedral in England, including Leonard Bernstein’s sensational Chichester Psalms, the stunning Chichester Mass by American composer William Albright, a setting of Psalm 23 by Lennox Berkeley, and canticle settings by Bryan Kelly and William Walton. In the spirit of Hussey’s adventurous commissioning these concerts will feature the world premiere of the piece composed for BCE by the winner of our 2012, 5th Anniversary Commission Competition.
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