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Friday, March 4th, 2011
8:00 pm at First Church Cambridge

Sunday, March 6th, 2011
2:30 pm at Old South Church, Boston

Inspired by the finest twentieth-century British choral music, BCE presents Door to Paradise, a thematic program that explores different perspectives on death and life after death. With Howells' sublime Take him Earth for Cherishing as the centerpiece, Door to Paradise also includes modern masterpieces by Tavener and Harvey, two little-known gems by Richard Scarth and two masterworks for double choir: Faire is the heaven by Harris and the monumental Vox dicentis: clama by Naylor. Please join the BCE and guest conductor Andrew Shenton for this transformative and inspirational program.

Edward NAYLOR (1867–1934)	:	Vox dicentis: Clama
Richard SCARTH	:	My God, how wonderful thou art
plainchant	:	Lux æterna
Jonathan HARVEY (1939—)	:	I Love the Lord (1977)
Herbert HOWELLS (1892–1983)	:	Take him, earth, for cherishing (1963)
SCARTH	:	Light’s abode celestial Salem (1984)
Sir Charles H H PARRY (1848–1918)	:	My soul, there is a country
plainchant	:	In paradisum
Sir John TAVENER (1944—)	:	Angels (1985)
Sir William Henry HARRIS (1883–1973)	:	Faire is the Heaven (1925)
[download the program, .pdf, 1.3 Mb]

Chichester

Join us on June 1 and 3 for a concert of works commissioned by Dean Walter Hussey for Chichester Cathedral in England, including Leonard Bernstein's sensational Chichester Psalms.

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