2011-2012 Season
Vertue
Friday, November 18, 2011
Sunday, November 20, 2011
First Church, Cambridge
Mission Church, Boston
Victoria’s Missa ‘Ascendens Christus’ in celebration of the 400th anniversary of his death, and music by award-winning British composer Judith Weir.
Missa Ascendens Christus — Tomás Luis de Victoria
Ascendens Christus in altum — Tomás Luis de Victor
Drop Down, Ye Heavens, from Above — Judith Weir
Psalm 148 — Judith Weir
Love Bade Me Welcome — Judith Weir
Vertue — Judith Weir
A Choral Holiday
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Old South Church, Boston
Join the Boston Choral Ensemble and the Choirs of Marlborough High School for a concert of music to celebrate the holidays, including carols for congregation and organ.
O Come all ye faithful — Trad. (arr. John Wade)
Deck the Halls — Trad.
Sir Christèmas — Trad. (arr. William Mathias)
Silent Night — Franz Gruber (arr. Andrew Shenton)
O magnum mysterium — Morten Lauridsen
Riu, riu, chiu (Spanish Villancico) — Mateo Flecha El Viejo
Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming — Michael Praetorius
Ave Maria — Franz Biebl
My Guardian Angel — Judith Weir
The Twelve Days of Christmas — Trad. (arr. John Rutter)
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing — Felix Mendelssohn (descant by David Wilcox)
Santa Claus is Coming to Town — J. Fred Coots (arr. Mark Hanson)
A Holly Jolly Christmas — Johnny Marks (arr. Mark Hanson)
Butterfly Dreams
Friday, March 9, 2012
Sunday, March 11, 2012
First Church, Cambridge
Old South Church, Boston
An exploration of 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 works by Dowland, Huub de Lange and others.
Wiegenlied — Johannes Brahms
Come, Heavy Sleep — John Dowland
A Dream Within a Dream — Huub de Lange
Hushabye Mountain — Richard Sherman
Butterfly Dreams — John Tavener
a blue true dream of sky — Judith Weir
I thank You God for most this amazing day — Eric Whitacre
Leonardo dreams of his flying machine — Eric Whitacre
Sleep — Eric Whitacre
Chichester Psalms
Friday, June 1, 2012
Sunday, June 3, 2012
First Church, Cambridge
Old South Church, Boston
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 Mountain Lion, composed for BCE by the winner of our 2012 Commission Competition. With Balint Karosi, organ.
Magnidicat and Nunc dimittis (Chichester service) — William Walton
The Song of the Creatures — Geoffrey Burgon
Chichester Mass — William Albright
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis — Judith Weir
US Premiere
Chichester Psalms — Leonard Bernstein
The Lord is my Shepherd — Lennox Berkeley
The Mountain Lion — Stephen Feigenbaum
World Premiere, Winner of BCE’s 2012 commission competition
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in C — Bryan Kelly