🔆 The summer programs page lists 16 programs (last change 4/26/24).

May 11, 2024 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Musica Sacra [MA]: In Music is Such Art: Choral Music set to texts of Shakespeare. Brush up your Shakespeare! From the time of his contemporary, Thomas Morley, to the present day, composers have turned to his expressive poetry to further explore his keen observations of the human condition. Modern composers such as Mäntyjärvi, Diemer, Komulainen, Harris, Helldén, Johanson, and Hamilton, as well as 19th century ones such as Macfarren, Pearsall and Amy Beach have all set his texts, be they poetry or songs or famous soliloquies from his plays. For more information, call 617-349-3400 or email info@musicasacra.org. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA (View flier) ⓘ

March 9, 2024 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Musica Sacra [MA]: Less is More: Minimalism in Choral Music. This program begins where last season’s March program left off—this year we are taking the old shape note tunes in a minimalist direction, inspired by William Duckworth’s monumental collection Southern Harmony. We will also explore what happens when you deconstruct music in a wider sense, so you will hear music with the use of a limited scale, music without pitch, music without rhythmic coordination, and so forth. William Walker/William Duckworth: Holy Manna; William Duckworth: Turtle Dove; The Mouldering Vine; Arvo Pärt: Solfeggio; Ernst Toch: Geographical Fugue; Scott Anthony Shell: I Am the Dance; Knut Nystedt: Immortal Bach; Alice Parker: Wondrous Love; William Duckworth: Wondrous Love; Philip Glass: Three Songs (settings of texts by Leonard Cohen, Dorothy Parker, and George Herbert, among others); Hilary Tann: Paradise; Heinrich Christensen: Very Short Songs. For more information, call 617-349-3400 or email info@musicasacra.org. 11 Garden Street Cambridge, MA, Cambridge MA 02138 (View flier) ⓘ

December 9, 2023 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Musica Sacra [MA]: The Christmas Story in Carols: Four centuries of European choral music celebrating the season. Tomás Luis de Victoria: O magnum mysterium; Francisco Guerrero: Villancico Los Reyes; Guillaume Costeley: Sus debout, gentilz pasteurs; Adolphe Adam: "O Holy Night"; Heinrich Schütz: Deutsches Magnificat, SWV 426; Franz Gruber: "Silent Night"; Robert Parsons: Ave Maria; with the Gaelic carol Tàladh Chrìosda, carols from the Czech Republic, Poland, Latvia, and Sweden, as well as the Ukrainian "Carol of the Bells". The 7:00 PM start time allows families to attend with their children, and you can catch it live in the concert hall or streaming in your living room. For more information, call 617-349-3400 or email info@musicasacra.org. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA (View flier) ⓘ

October 21, 2023 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Musica Sacra [MA]: From the Old World to the New World. Tomás Luis de Victoria: Requiem Mass for Six Voices; Juan de Lienas: Salve Regina; Lamentatio. For more information, call 617-349-3400 or email info@musicasacra.org. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ

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