🔆 The summer programs page lists 25 programs (last change 8/2/24).

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.

August 7, 2024 (Wednesday)

7:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Summer Sing. Join members of Convivium Musicum for an evening of Singing and merry making. Repertoire will include works by Senfl, Isaac, and Lassus, with gems such as Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen and Virgo Prudentissima. Free admission, refreshments will be served. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email ruthiegm@gmail.com. All Saints Parish, 1773 Beacon Street, Brookline MA 02445 ⓘ

June 2, 2024 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Draw On Sweet Night. Music based on the thoughts and emotions that arise between dusk and dawn, including works by Wilbye, Lasso, Aleotti, Palestrina, and others. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1 Homer St, Newton Centre MA 02459 ⓘ

June 1, 2024 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Draw On Sweet Night. Music based on the thoughts and emotions that arise between dusk and dawn, including works by Wilbye, Lasso, Aleotti, Palestrina, and others. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. First Unitarian of Worcester, 90 Main Street, Worcester MA 01608 ⓘ

March 2, 2024 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music for a French Cathedral. Works by Ockeghem and Josquin, including parts of Ockeghem’s Missa pro defunctis and Josquin’s Déploration sur la mort d’Ockeghem. We will also celebrate the 550th anniversary of the passing of Dufay. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ

February 25, 2024 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music for a French Cathedral. Works by Ockeghem and Josquin, including parts of Ockeghem’s Missa pro defunctis and Josquin’s Déploration sur la mort d’Ockeghem. We will also celebrate the 550th anniversary of the passing of Dufay. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. Christ Church Andover, 33 Central Street, Andover MA 01810 ⓘ

December 3, 2023 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: O Quam Gloriosum: Music of the Late Spanish Renaissance. Works by Victoria, Morales, and Guerrero. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. First Unitarian of Worcester, 90 Main Street, Worcester MA 01608 ⓘ

November 19, 2023 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: O Quam Gloriosum: Music of the Late Spanish Renaissance. Works by Victoria, Morales, and Guerrero. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. All Saints Parish, 1773 Beacon Street, Brookline MA 02445 ⓘ

November 21, 2021 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Cornucopia. A program on themes of growth, plenty, and variety: in texts, musical techniques, and composers. Works by Byrd, Aleotti, Senfl, Rossi, Schütz, Lusitano, Sweelinck, and more. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. United Parish In Brookline, 210 Harvard Street, Brookline MA 02446 ⓘ

November 20, 2021 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Cornucopia. A program on themes of growth, plenty, and variety: in texts, musical techniques, and composers. Works by Byrd, Aleotti, Senfl, Rossi, Schütz, Lusitano, Sweelinck, and more. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ

June 5, 2021 (Saturday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Ars Imperfecta: Pushing the Bounds of Polyphony. A concert of both famous exemplars of the “ars perfecta” — Josquin and Palestrina chief among them — alongside others whose efforts sometimes seem to lie outside the mainstream, including Orlando di Lasso, Giaches de Wert, Michelangelo Rossi, and more. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. Christ Church Andover, 33 Central Street, Andover MA 01810 ⓘ

May 21, 2021 (Friday)

8:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Ars Imperfecta: Pushing the Bounds of Polyphony. A concert of both famous exemplars of the “ars perfecta” — Josquin and Palestrina chief among them — alongside others whose efforts sometimes seem to lie outside the mainstream, including Orlando di Lasso, Giaches de Wert, Michelangelo Rossi, and more. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. Trinity Lutheran Church, 73 Lancaster Street, Worcester MA 01609 ⓘ

November 24, 2019 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Songs of Salamone. Choral music of Salamone Rossi (c. 1570 – 1630), including his settings of Jewish liturgical music and selections from his madrigals, as well as psalm settings by Sweelinck and Mendelssohn. Tickets: $25 regular, $15 Senior/student/limited income. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. United Parish In Brookline, 210 Harvard Street, Brookline MA 02446 ⓘ

November 23, 2019 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Songs of Salamone. Choral music of Salamone Rossi (c. 1570 – 1630), including his settings of Jewish liturgical music and selections from his madrigals, as well as psalm settings by Sweelinck and Mendelssohn. Tickets: $25 regular, $15 Senior/student/limited income. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ

June 2, 2019 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Musica Nova: Music in Venice from Willaert to Monteverdi. Join us as we explore the history of music-making in Venice from 1527, when Adrian Willaert was appointed as maestro di cappella at the Basilica of St. Mark in Venice, to the last gasps of the stile antico. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. United Parish In Brookline, 210 Harvard Street, Brookline MA 02446 ⓘ

June 1, 2019 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Musica Nova: Music in Venice from Willaert to Monteverdi. Join us as we explore the history of music-making in Venice from 1527, when Adrian Willaert was appointed as maestro di cappella at the Basilica of St. Mark in Venice, to the last gasps of the stile antico. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. Trinity Lutheran Church, 73 Lancaster Street, Worcester MA 01609 ⓘ

May 18, 2018 (Friday)

8:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Reprise. A revival of repertoire from our 2017-18 season. Michael Barrett, conductor. Tickets: $25 general, $15 student/senior/limited income. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. Trinity Lutheran Church, 73 Lancaster Street, Worcester MA 01609 ⓘ

April 29, 2018 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Cori Spezzati: a collaborative concert with Montreal’s Ensemble Bellechose. A revival of repertoire from our 2017-18 season. Michael Barrett, conductor. Tickets: $25 general, $15 student/senior/limited income. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. United Parish in Brookline, 210 Harvard Street, Brookline MA 02446 ⓘ

June 17, 2017 (Saturday)

12:00 AM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Reformation: Musical Traditions in Protestant Europe (marking the 500th anniversary of Luther’s 95 Theses). For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. Old West Church, 131 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA ⓘ

May 21, 2017 (Sunday)

7:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Reformation: Musical Traditions in Protestant Europe (marking the 500th anniversary of Luther’s 95 Theses). For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. United Parish in Brookline, 210 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA ⓘ

May 20, 2017 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Reformation: Musical Traditions in Protestant Europe (marking the 500th anniversary of Luther’s 95 Theses). For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. Trinity Lutheran Church, 73 Lancaster Street, Worcester, MA ⓘ

May 13, 2017 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Reformation: Musical Traditions in Protestant Europe (marking the 500th anniversary of Luther’s 95 Theses). For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA ⓘ

February 5, 2017 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: The Josquin Generation: Isaac, Obrecht, la Rue, Agricola, and more. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. First Parish Church, 24 Central Street, Berlin, MA ⓘ

January 29, 2017 (Sunday)

7:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: The Josquin Generation: Isaac, Obrecht, la Rue, Agricola, and more. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Brookline, MA ⓘ

January 22, 2017 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: The Josquin Generation: Isaac, Obrecht, la Rue, Agricola, and more. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. Christ Church Andover, 33 Central Street, Andover, MA ⓘ

January 21, 2017 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: The Josquin Generation: Isaac, Obrecht, la Rue, Agricola, and more. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. Cambridge Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge, MA ⓘ

May 22, 2016 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music from The Regensburg Manuscript. Works by Striggo, Monte, Utendal, and others. With the 7 Hills Renaissance Wind Band. The Regensburg Manuscript, a collection of six partbooks, is a significant collection of late-16th-century polyphony. Although the manuscript contains vocal music, it was copied out for an ensemble of wind players, and is unique among sources of the period in containing specific instrumentation for around half of its 120 compositions. Free admission for children under 18. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. United Parish in Brookline, 210 Harvard Street, Brookline MA 02446 ⓘ

May 21, 2016 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music from The Regensburg Manuscript. Works by Striggo, Monte, Utendal, and others. With the 7 Hills Renaissance Wind Band. The Regensburg Manuscript, a collection of six partbooks, is a significant collection of late-16th-century polyphony. Although the manuscript contains vocal music, it was copied out for an ensemble of wind players, and is unique among sources of the period in containing specific instrumentation for around half of its 120 compositions. Free admission for children under 18. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ

May 14, 2016 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music from The Regensburg Manuscript. Works by Striggo, Monte, Utendal, and others. With the 7 Hills Renaissance Wind Band. The Regensburg Manuscript, a collection of six partbooks, is a significant collection of late-16th-century polyphony. Although the manuscript contains vocal music, it was copied out for an ensemble of wind players, and is unique among sources of the period in containing specific instrumentation for around half of its 120 compositions. Free admission for children under 18. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. Trinity Lutheran Church, 73 Lancaster Street, Worcester MA 01609 ⓘ

February 14, 2016 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music Poetica: Rhetoric in Renaissance Music. Works by Lassus, Schein, Padilla, and more. Free admission for children under 18. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. First Parish Church, 24 Central Street, Berlin MA 01503 ⓘ

February 7, 2016 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music Poetica: Rhetoric in Renaissance Music. Works by Lassus, Schein, Padilla, and more. Free admission for children under 18. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 15 St. Paul Street, Brookline MA 02446 ⓘ

January 31, 2016 (Sunday)

5:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music Poetica: Rhetoric in Renaissance Music. Works by Lassus, Schein, Padilla, and more. Free admission for children under 18. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. Christ Church Andover, 33 Central Street, Andover MA 01810 ⓘ

January 30, 2016 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music Poetica: Rhetoric in Renaissance Music. Works by Lassus, Schein, Padilla, and more. Free admission for children under 18. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. Cambridge Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ

January 24, 2016 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Giuseppe Verdi: Otello. With Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, Federico Cortese, conductor. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138

January 31, 2015 (Saturday)

7:30 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music from the Dow Partbooks. The Dow Partbooks comprise one of the most visually stunning and important collections of English music from the Tudor period. The collection includes some of the great English works of the time: Ne irascaris of William Byrd; O sacrum convivium of Thomas Tallis; Ave Maria of William Parsons; and Robert White's Lamentations of Jeremiah. Earlier this season, Convivium Musicum had the special opportunity to perform some of these pieces as part of a day-long workshop with the Viola da Gamba Society and in celebration of Powers Music School's 50th anniversary. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. First Parish Church, 15 Central Street, Berlin MA 01503 ⓘ

January 25, 2015 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music from the Dow Partbooks. The Dow Partbooks comprise one of the most visually stunning and important collections of English music from the Tudor period. The collection includes some of the great English works of the time: Ne irascaris of William Byrd; O sacrum convivium of Thomas Tallis; Ave Maria of William Parsons; and Robert White's Lamentations of Jeremiah. Earlier this season, Convivium Musicum had the special opportunity to perform some of these pieces as part of a day-long workshop with the Viola da Gamba Society and in celebration of Powers Music School's 50th anniversary. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 15 St. Paul's Street, Brookline MA 02446 ⓘ

January 24, 2015 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music from the Dow Partbooks. The Dow Partbooks comprise one of the most visually stunning and important collections of English music from the Tudor period. The collection includes some of the great English works of the time: Ne irascaris of William Byrd; O sacrum convivium of Thomas Tallis; Ave Maria of William Parsons; and Robert White's Lamentations of Jeremiah. Earlier this season, Convivium Musicum had the special opportunity to perform some of these pieces as part of a day-long workshop with the Viola da Gamba Society and in celebration of Powers Music School's 50th anniversary. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. Cambridge Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ

June 15, 2013 (Saturday)

12:00 AM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music of the Spheres: Music and Mathematics in the Renaissance. Church of St. John the Evangelist, Boston MA

May 19, 2013 (Sunday)

7:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music of the Spheres: Music and Mathematics in the Renaissance. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Brookline MA

May 18, 2013 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music of the Spheres: Music and Mathematics in the Renaissance. Harvard-Epworth Church, Cambridge MA

May 11, 2013 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music of the Spheres: Music and Mathematics in the Renaissance. Trinity Lutheran Church, Worcester MA

January 27, 2013 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Brahms and Early Music. Join Convivium as we rummage through the extensive musical closet of Johannes Brahms, dusting off the Renaissance and early Baroque polyphony that inspired his own most inventive and artful choral utterances. Brahms’ music library reflected the composer's almost unprecedented respect for artists of the past. One is not surprised to find Schubert, Mozart, Haydn and Bach among his collection, but there was also a healthy collection of Lotti, Lassus, Praetorius, Eccard, and other composers that were virtually unknown at the time. Brahms was also responsible for bringing many of these composers to the Viennese public, helping to usher in more generally the concept of the "canon" in Western musical life. Convivium presents a sample of the works Brahms held so dear and that he chose to share with his adopted Vienna. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. United Parish in Brookline, 210 Harvard Street, Brookline MA

January 26, 2013 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Brahms and Early Music. Join Convivium as we rummage through the extensive musical closet of Johannes Brahms, dusting off the Renaissance and early Baroque polyphony that inspired his own most inventive and artful choral utterances. Brahms’ music library reflected the composer's almost unprecedented respect for artists of the past. One is not surprised to find Schubert, Mozart, Haydn and Bach among his collection, but there was also a healthy collection of Lotti, Lassus, Praetorius, Eccard, and other composers that were virtually unknown at the time. Brahms was also responsible for bringing many of these composers to the Viennese public, helping to usher in more generally the concept of the "canon" in Western musical life. Convivium presents a sample of the works Brahms held so dear and that he chose to share with his adopted Vienna. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. Cambridge Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge MA

January 20, 2013 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Brahms and Early Music. Join Convivium as we rummage through the extensive musical closet of Johannes Brahms, dusting off the Renaissance and early Baroque polyphony that inspired his own most inventive and artful choral utterances. Brahms’ music library reflected the composer's almost unprecedented respect for artists of the past. One is not surprised to find Schubert, Mozart, Haydn and Bach among his collection, but there was also a healthy collection of Lotti, Lassus, Praetorius, Eccard, and other composers that were virtually unknown at the time. Brahms was also responsible for bringing many of these composers to the Viennese public, helping to usher in more generally the concept of the "canon" in Western musical life. Convivium presents a sample of the works Brahms held so dear and that he chose to share with his adopted Vienna. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. Christ Church Andover, 33 Central Street, Andover MA

December 13, 2012 (Thursday)

7:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Brahms and Early Music. Join Convivium as we rummage through the extensive musical closet of Johannes Brahms, dusting off the Renaissance and early Baroque polyphony that inspired his own most inventive and artful choral utterances. Brahms’ music library reflected the composer's almost unprecedented respect for artists of the past. One is not surprised to find Schubert, Mozart, Haydn and Bach among his collection, but there was also a healthy collection of Lotti, Lassus, Praetorius, Eccard, and other composers that were virtually unknown at the time. Brahms was also responsible for bringing many of these composers to the Viennese public, helping to usher in more generally the concept of the "canon" in Western musical life. Convivium presents a sample of the works Brahms held so dear and that he chose to share with his adopted Vienna. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. Bethany Congregational Church, Foxborough MA

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