Auditions

Auditions are open for Assabet Valley Mastersingers. See the auditions page for more information.

April 5, 2025 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Blue Heron Renaissance Choir [MA]: Song of Songs / Songs of Love. Sacred polyphony setting texts from the Song of Songs, Spanish love songs, and poetry in Spanish and Hebrew. Ohad Ashkenazi and Bella Cadena, actors. Tickets: $10–90. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheronchoir.org. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

March 1, 2025 (Saturday)

3:00 PM. Blue Heron Renaissance Choir [MA]: A More Subtle Art: The Late 14th-Century Ars subtilior. Music of the generation after Machaut – stories of mythological characters and deities set to jazzy, intoxicating polyphony. Tickets: $10–90. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheronchoir.org. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

February 28, 2025 (Friday)

7:00 PM. Music at the Crossroads / Blue Heron [MA]: A more subtle art - the late 14th-century Ars Subtilior. The complex yet ravishing lovely music of the generation following Guillaume de Machaut—stories of mythological characters, deities, and mortals, set to jazzy, intoxicating polyphony. Sophie Michaux, Jason McStoots and Aaron Sheehan, voices; Orí Harmelin, lute; Debra Nagy, douçaine and recorder; Scott Metcalfe, medieval fiddle & harp. Preconcert lecture by Anne Stone available online a week before the concert. Suggested donation $20: 100% of donations benefit Community Action Pioneer Valley. For more information, call 857-205-5266 or email sophie.p.michaux@gmail.com. Edwards Church, 297 Main Street, Conway MA 01341 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

February 1, 2025 (Saturday)

3:00 PM. Blue Heron Renaissance Choir [MA]: The Armed Archangel. Johannes Regis, Missa L’homme armé (Written for the celebration of the feast of St. Michael at Cambrai Cathedral in 1462). Tickets: $10–90. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheronchoir.org. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

December 21, 2024 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Blue Heron Renaissance Choir [MA]: Christmas in 15th-Century France & Burgundy. Music for Christmas and New Year’s by Guillaume Du Fay, Nicolas Grenon, Johannes Ciconia, Johannes Regis, Jacob Obrecht, Antoine Brumel, Josquin Desprez, Adrian Willaert, and others. Featuring a chancel lit by candles. Tickets: $10-$90 For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheronchoir.org. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

3:00 PM. Blue Heron Renaissance Choir [MA]: Christmas in 15th-Century France & Burgundy. Music for Christmas and New Year’s by Guillaume Du Fay, Nicolas Grenon, Johannes Ciconia, Johannes Regis, Jacob Obrecht, Antoine Brumel, Josquin Desprez, Adrian Willaert, and others. Featuring a chancel lit by candles. Tickets: $10-$90 For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheronchoir.org. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

December 20, 2024 (Friday)

8:00 PM. Blue Heron Renaissance Choir [MA]: Christmas in 15th-Century France & Burgundy. Music for Christmas and New Year’s by Guillaume Du Fay, Nicolas Grenon, Johannes Ciconia, Johannes Regis, Jacob Obrecht, Antoine Brumel, Josquin Desprez, Adrian Willaert, and others. Featuring a chancel lit by candles. Tickets: $10-$90 For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheronchoir.org. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

October 19, 2024 (Saturday)

3:00 PM. Blue Heron Renaissance Choir [MA]: 25th Birthday Concert: something old, something new. Music of Hugh Aston from the Peterhouse Partbooks; Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol: Devran; The Triumph, for choir, bowed tanbur, ney, and two percussionists (world premiere). Blue Heron’s 25th Birthday Party Reception to follow! For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheronchoir.org. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

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