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Auditions
Auditions are open for The A Cappella Singers, Brattleboro Camerata, Brattleboro Concert Choir, Cantemus Chamber Chorus, Cantilena, Concord Chorus, GMChorale, Masterworks Chorale, New Haven Oratorio Choir, Pilgrim Festival Chorus, Rockingham Choral Society, Sheepscot Chorus, Spectrum Singers and St. Cecilia Chamber Choir. See the auditions page for more information.
April 13, 2024 (Saturday)
3:00 PM. Blue Heron [MA]: The World of Johannes Okeghem. Preconcert lecture by Sean Gallagher (New England Conservatory) at 2:15 pm. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheronchoir.org. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ
March 23, 2024 (Saturday)
8:00 PM. Blue Heron [MA]: Tasso & Wert. Settings of dramatic scenes by Torquato Tasso, with music by the great Giaches de Wert & others. Pre-concert talk by Emiliano Ricciardi (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) at 7:15 pm. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheronchoir.org. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ
January 20, 2024 (Saturday)
3:00 PM. Blue Heron [MA]: Renaissance Portraits. Music by Ciconia, Du Fay, Busnoys, Isaac & others. Pre-concert talk by Jodi Cranston (Boston University) at 2:15 pm. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheronchoir.org. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ
December 16, 2023 (Saturday)
8:00 PM. Blue Heron [MA]: Christmas in Medieval England. English Christmas carols, chant & motets. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheronchoir.org. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ
3:00 PM. Blue Heron [MA]: Christmas in Medieval England. English Christmas carols, chant & motets. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheronchoir.org. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ
December 15, 2023 (Friday)
8:00 PM. Blue Heron [MA]: Christmas in Medieval England. English Christmas carols, chant & motets. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheronchoir.org. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ
October 14, 2023 (Saturday)
3:00 PM. Blue Heron [MA]: Le Rossignol musical / The Musical Nightingale. Songs about love & freedom, nightingales & other musical birds from Le Rossignol musical (Antwerp, 1597), by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Claude Le Jeune, Andreas Pevernage, Cipriano De Rore & others. Pre-concert talk by Kate van Orden (Harvard University) at 2:15 pm. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheronchoir.org. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ
December 23, 2018 (Sunday)
4:00 PM. Blue Heron [RI]: Christmas in 15th-Century France & Burgundy. Music by the greatest French and Flemish musicians of the fifteenth century—Guillaume Du Fay, Johannes Regis, Josquin Desprez, Jacob Obrecht, Antoine Brumel, and others. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheron.org. St. Stephen’s Church, 114 George Street, Providence RI 02906 ⓘ
December 22, 2018 (Saturday)
8:00 PM. Blue Heron [MA]: Christmas in 15th-Century France & Burgundy. Music by the greatest French and Flemish musicians of the fifteenth century—Guillaume Du Fay, Johannes Regis, Josquin Desprez, Jacob Obrecht, Antoine Brumel, and others. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheron.org. First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ
2:30 PM. Blue Heron [MA]: Christmas in 15th-Century France & Burgundy. Music by the greatest French and Flemish musicians of the fifteenth century—Guillaume Du Fay, Johannes Regis, Josquin Desprez, Jacob Obrecht, Antoine Brumel, and others. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheron.org. First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ
December 21, 2018 (Friday)
8:00 PM. Blue Heron [MA]: Christmas in 15th-Century France & Burgundy. Music by the greatest French and Flemish musicians of the fifteenth century—Guillaume Du Fay, Johannes Regis, Josquin Desprez, Jacob Obrecht, Antoine Brumel, and others. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheron.org. First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ
December 1, 2018 (Saturday)
7:30 PM. Blue Heron [MA]: Christmas in 15th-Century France & Burgundy. Music by the greatest French and Flemish musicians of the fifteenth century—Guillaume Du Fay, Johannes Regis, Josquin Desprez, Jacob Obrecht, Antoine Brumel, and others. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheron.org. Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church, 79 Denton Road, Wellesley MA 02482 ⓘ
October 13, 2018 (Saturday)
8:00 PM. Blue Heron [MA]: Missa Cuiusvis Toni (Ockeghem@600, Concert 8). Johannes Ockeghem (c.1420-1497): Missa Cuiusvis toni; S’elle m’amera / Petite Camusette; Se vostre cuer eslongne moy a tort;Anonymous: Ave rosa speciosa / Beata mater; Pierre de la Rue: Regina celi; Antoine Busnoys: Amours nous traitte honnestement / Je m’en vois au vert bois. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheron.org. First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ
October 12, 2018 (Friday)
8:00 PM. Blue Heron [MA]: Missa Cuiusvis Toni (Ockeghem@600, Concert 8). Johannes Ockeghem (c.1420-1497): Missa Cuiusvis toni; S’elle m’amera / Petite Camusette; Se vostre cuer eslongne moy a tort;Anonymous: Ave rosa speciosa / Beata mater; Pierre de la Rue: Regina celi; Antoine Busnoys: Amours nous traitte honnestement / Je m’en vois au vert bois. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheron.org. St. Mary's Chapel, Boston College, Chestnut Hill MA 02467 ⓘ
October 11, 2018 (Thursday)
7:30 PM. Blue Heron [MA]: Missa Cuiusvis Toni (Ockeghem@600, Concert 8). Johannes Ockeghem (c.1420-1497): Missa Cuiusvis toni; S’elle m’amera / Petite Camusette; Se vostre cuer eslongne moy a tort;Anonymous: Ave rosa speciosa / Beata mater; Pierre de la Rue: Regina celi; Antoine Busnoys: Amours nous traitte honnestement / Je m’en vois au vert bois. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheron.org. St. Cecilia Parish, 18 Belvidere Street, Boston MA 02115 ⓘ
September 26, 2018 (Wednesday)
7:30 PM. Blue Heron [VT]: Flos florum / Flower of flowers. 15th-century Franco-Flemish music designed for the exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal of Books of Hours from the 13th to the 16th Century. The program includes both devotional music and secular chansons that were quoted allegorically in Marian works, and features music by Guillaume Du Fay, Gilles Binchois, Johannes Ockeghem, Johannes Regis, Alexander Agricola, and Josquin Desprez. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheron.org. College Street Congregational Church, 265 College Street, Burlington VT 05401 ⓘ
May 5, 2018 (Saturday)
7:30 PM. Blue Heron [MA]: Songs of Love and Death: Sonnets by Petrarch and others set by Cipriano de Rore in I madrigali a cinque voci (Venice, 1542). Presented by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheron.org. Concord Free Public Library, 129 Main Street, Concord MA 01742 ⓘ
April 15, 2018 (Sunday)
4:00 PM. Blue Heron [MA]: The Iberian Songbook Spanish songs & dances, 1450-1600. A special free concert. Songs and dances from 15th- and 16th-century Spain performed by six singers, a five-part Renaissance violin consort, two vihuelas, percussion, and a dancer. Music by Johannes Cornago, Francisco de Peñalosa, Juan Vásquez, Francisco Guerrero, Juan Blas de Castro, and others. Doors open at 3:30 pm; open seating (first-come, first-served). For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheron.org. The Parish of All Saints – Ashmont, 209 Ashmont Street, Dorchester Center MA 02124 ⓘ
April 14, 2018 (Saturday)
8:00 PM. Blue Heron [MA]: The Iberian Songbook: Spanish songs & dances, 1450-1600. Songs and dances from 15th- and 16th-century Spain performed by six singers, a five-part Renaissance violin consort, two vihuelas, percussion, and a dancer. Music by Johannes Cornago, Francisco de Peñalosa, Juan Vásquez, Francisco Guerrero, Juan Blas de Castro, and others. Tickets: $30-$68 adult, $10 student, under 18 admitted free. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheron.org. First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ
3:00 PM. Blue Heron [MA]: Family Concert: Spanish songs & dances, 1450-1600. A special short program geared toward families with children, of songs and dances from 15th- and 16th-century Spain performed by a colorful array of musicians: six singers, a five-part Renaissance violin consort, two vihuelas, percussion, and a dancer. Tickets: $25, under 18 admitted free. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheron.org. First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ
March 3, 2018 (Saturday)
8:00 PM. Blue Heron [MA]: Missa Fors seulement & other music based on songs (Ockeghem@600, Concert 7). Johannes Ockeghem (c.1420-1497): Fors seulement l’attente, Fors seulement contre ce, Missa Fors seulement; Gilles Binchois: Je ne vis onques la pareille; Pierre de la Rue: Salve regina; Alexander Agricola: Credo Je ne vis onques; Johannes Ghiselin: Salve regina. Tickets: $30-$68 adult, $10 student, under 18 admitted free. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheron.org. First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ
March 2, 2018 (Friday)
7:30 PM. Blue Heron [MA]: Missa Fors seulement & other music based on songs (Ockeghem@600, Concert 7). Johannes Ockeghem (c.1420-1497): Fors seulement l’attente, Fors seulement contre ce, Missa Fors seulement; Gilles Binchois: Je ne vis onques la pareille; Pierre de la Rue: Salve regina; Alexander Agricola: Credo Je ne vis onques; Johannes Ghiselin: Salve regina. Tickets: $30-$68 adult, $10 student, under 18 admitted free. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheron.org. St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 79 Denton Road, Wellesley MA 02482 ⓘ
March 1, 2018 (Thursday)
7:30 PM. Blue Heron [MA]: Missa Fors seulement & other music based on songs (Ockeghem@600, Concert 7). Johannes Ockeghem (c.1420-1497): Fors seulement l’attente, Fors seulement contre ce, Missa Fors seulement; Gilles Binchois: Je ne vis onques la pareille; Pierre de la Rue: Salve regina; Alexander Agricola: Credo Je ne vis onques; Johannes Ghiselin: Salve regina. Tickets: $30-$68 adult, $10 student, under 18 admitted free. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheron.org. St. Cecilia Parish, 18 Belvidere Street, Boston MA 02115 ⓘ
February 3, 2018 (Saturday)
8:00 PM. Blue Heron [MA]: Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks Richard Pygott, Missa Veni sancte spiritus & other works. Richard Pygott: Missa Veni sancte spiritus (premiere performance). Tickets: $30-$68 adult, $10 student, under 18 admitted free. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheron.org. First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ
December 23, 2017 (Saturday)
8:00 PM. Blue Heron [MA]: Christmas in Medieval England. Music for Advent and Christmas from 15th-century England, including motets by Leonel Power and John Dunstaple, English carols, and Sarum plainchant. Tickets: $30-$68 adult, $10 student, under 18 admitted free. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheron.org. First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ
2:30 PM. Blue Heron [MA]: Christmas in Medieval England. Music for Advent and Christmas from 15th-century England, including motets by Leonel Power and John Dunstaple, English carols, and Sarum plainchant. Tickets: $30-$68 adult, $10 student, under 18 admitted free. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheron.org. First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ
December 22, 2017 (Friday)
8:00 PM. Blue Heron [MA]: Christmas in Medieval England. Music for Advent and Christmas from 15th-century England, including motets by Leonel Power and John Dunstaple, English carols, and Sarum plainchant. Tickets: $30-$68 adult, $10 student, under 18 admitted free. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheron.org. First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ
October 14, 2017 (Saturday)
8:00 PM. Blue Heron [MA]: Ma maistresse: Songs, masses & a motet for My Lady (Ockeghem@600, Concert 6). Johannes Regis (c. 1425-1496): Celsitonantis ave genitrix; Barbingant (fl. ?1450s): Au travail suis; Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1420-1497): Ma maistresse; Missa Ma maistresse; Missa Au travail suis. Pre-concert talk at 7:15 PM by Sean Gallagher, New England Conservatory. Tickets: $30-$68 adult, $10 student, under 18 admitted free. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheron.org. First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ
October 11, 2017 (Wednesday)
5:00 PM. Blue Heron [MA]: Ma maistresse: Songs, masses & a motet for My Lady (Ockeghem@600, Concert 6). Workshop/Recital Presented by the NEC Intercultural Institute. Johannes Regis (c. 1425-1496): Celsitonantis ave genitrix; Barbingant (fl. ?1450s): Au travail suis; Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1420-1497): Ma maistresse; Missa Ma maistresse; Missa Au travail suis. Pre-concert talk at 7:15 PM by Sean Gallagher, New England Conservatory. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheron.org. Brown Hall, New England Conservatory, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston MA 02115 ⓘ
March 21, 2015 (Saturday)
8:00 PM. Blue Heron Choir [MA]: Ockeghem@600: Ockeghem, Busnoys, Regis, Caron & Faugues. First Church Cambridge, 11 Garden St., Cambridge MA ⓘ
February 22, 2015 (Sunday)
4:00 PM. Blue Heron Choir [MA]: Ockeghem@600. Johannes Ockeghem (c.1420-1497): Missa De plus en plus; with music by Binchois & Du Fay. Pre-concert talk on Feb. 21 by Sean Gallagher (New England Conservatory). Meeting House, 107 Main Street, Hingham MA 02043 ⓘ
February 21, 2015 (Saturday)
8:00 PM. Blue Heron Choir [MA]: Ockeghem@600. Johannes Ockeghem (c.1420-1497): Missa De plus en plus; with music by Binchois & Du Fay. Pre-concert talk on Feb. 21 by Sean Gallagher (New England Conservatory). First Church Cambridge, 11 Garden St., Cambridge MA ⓘ
February 14, 2015 (Saturday)
3:00 PM. Blue Heron Choir [MA]: Ockeghem@600. Johannes Ockeghem (c.1420-1497): Missa De plus en plus; with music by Binchois & Du Fay. Pre-concert talk on Feb. 21 by Sean Gallagher (New England Conservatory). St. Mary’s Chapel, Boston College, Chestnut Hill MA 02467 ⓘ
February 2, 2015 (Monday)
7:30 PM. Blue Heron Choir [MA]: A More Subtle Art: The 14th-century avant-garde (collaboration with Les Délices). Works from the 14th Century for singers and instrumentalist. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheronchoir.org. First Church Cambridge, 11 Garden St., Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ
February 1, 2015 (Sunday)
4:00 PM. Blue Heron Choir [MA]: A More Subtle Art: The 14th-century avant-garde (collaboration with Les Délices). Works from the 14th Century for singers and instrumentalist. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheronchoir.org. Ascension Memorial Church, 31 County Street, Ipswich MA 01938 ⓘ
January 31, 2015 (Saturday)
8:00 PM. Blue Heron Choir [MA]: A More Subtle Art: The 14th-century avant-garde (collaboration with Les Délices). Works from the 14th Century for singers and instrumentalist. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheronchoir.org. The Salem Athenaeum, 337 Essex Street, Salem MA MA 01970 ⓘ
January 30, 2015 (Friday)
8:00 PM. Blue Heron Choir [MA]: A More Subtle Art: The 14th-century avant-garde (collaboration with Les Délices). Works from the 14th Century for singers and instrumentalist. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheronchoir.org. Congregational Church of Weston, 130 Newton Street, Weston MA 02493 ⓘ
January 29, 2015 (Thursday)
8:00 PM. Blue Heron Choir [MA]: A More Subtle Art: The 14th-century avant-garde (collaboration with Les Délices). Works from the 14th Century for singers and instrumentalist. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheronchoir.org. First Religious Society on the Common, 27 School Street, Carlisle MA 01741 ⓘ
December 20, 2014 (Saturday)
2:30 PM. Blue Heron Choir [MA]: Christmas in 15th-century France & Burgundy. Jacob Obrecht: Factor orbis; Josquin Desprez: O virgo virginum; Antoine Brumel: Nato canunt omnia; Johannes Ciconia: Gloria Spiritus et alme; Guillaume Du Fay: Christmas sequences and hymns; Seasonal plainchant; New Year’s Day songs by Gilles Binchois, Baude Cordier, Nicolas Grenon and others. First Church Cambridge, 11 Garden St., Cambridge MA ⓘ
December 19, 2014 (Friday)
8:00 PM. Blue Heron Choir [MA]: Christmas in 15th-century France & Burgundy. Jacob Obrecht: Factor orbis; Josquin Desprez: O virgo virginum; Antoine Brumel: Nato canunt omnia; Johannes Ciconia: Gloria Spiritus et alme; Guillaume Du Fay: Christmas sequences and hymns; Seasonal plainchant; New Year’s Day songs by Gilles Binchois, Baude Cordier, Nicolas Grenon and others. First Church Cambridge, 11 Garden St., Cambridge MA ⓘ
December 18, 2014 (Thursday)
8:00 PM. Blue Heron Choir [MA]: Christmas in 15th-century France & Burgundy. Jacob Obrecht: Factor orbis; Josquin Desprez: O virgo virginum; Antoine Brumel: Nato canunt omnia; Johannes Ciconia: Gloria Spiritus et alme; Guillaume Du Fay: Christmas sequences and hymns; Seasonal plainchant; New Year’s Day songs by Gilles Binchois, Baude Cordier, Nicolas Grenon and others. First Church Cambridge, 11 Garden St., Cambridge MA ⓘ
November 15, 2014 (Saturday)
3:00 PM. Blue Heron Choir [MA]: Capturing Music. A multimedia event in collaboration with Thomas Forrest Kelly, Harvard University. Professor Kelly will present, and Blue Heron will sing, key moments in the art of music from c. 800 to c. 1400, including Gregorian chant, organa by Leonin and Perotin, and music of Machaut, Senleches, de Vitry and Cordier. The event has two parts, the first beginning at 3:00 PM, the second at 8:00 PM. For more information, call 617-960-7956 or email office@blueheronchoir.org. First Church Cambridge, 11 Garden St., Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ
October 18, 2014 (Saturday)
8:00 PM. Blue Heron Choir [MA]: A Mass for St. Augustine of Canterbury. An anonymous Missa sine nomine from the Peterhouse partbooks (c. 1540). First Church Cambridge, 11 Garden St., Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ
October 17, 2014 (Friday)
8:00 PM. Blue Heron Choir [MA]: A Mass for St. Augustine of Canterbury. An anonymous Missa sine nomine from the Peterhouse partbooks (c. 1540). St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 320 Boston Post Road, Weston MA 02493 ⓘ
September 30, 2014 (Tuesday)
8:00 PM. Blue Heron Choir [MA]: Season Preview / 15th Birthday Party. Food, fundraiser, concert. Church Of The Redeemer, 379 Hammond Street, Chestnut Hill, MA ⓘ
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Other Choral Calendars—Not Choral Arts New England
- CT: Association of Connecticut Choruses (ACC)
- MA (Boston): Greater Boston Choral Consortium (GBCC)
- MA (central): Central Massachusetts Choral Consortium
- NH: The Choral Arts Foundation of the Upper Valley
- Greater Boston: Boston Singers' Resource Vocal Music Calendar