2014: Lost: Requiem and Lamentation/Found: The Age of European Exploration

2014 Season Brochure

SPECIAL EVENT #1: In December 2013, Michael Barrett and several members of Convivium, along with other selected singers, performed Handel’s Messiah with the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra .

Messiah Performance Dates:

Friday, December 13, 2013 8 PM,  Christ the King Church, Mashpee, MA
Saturday, December 14, 2013 7:30 PM, Christ the King Church, Mashpee, MA
Sunday, December 15, 2013 3 PM, Provincetown Town Hall, 260 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA

Please click here for more details about these performances.

SPECIAL EVENT #2: SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 2014 at 3 PM:Just before our upcoming Lost concerts, Convivium assisted the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra by singing the Te Deum finale of Act I of Puccini’s Tosca at Sanders Theater , Harvard University.

Winter 2014: Lost: Requiem and Lamentation

Convivium explores the theme of loss in Renaissance music: loss of a city, a beloved friend, a famed composer, with works including Lamentations of Robert White, Planxit autem David by Josquin des Prez, and the magnificent Requiem on the death of Josquin, by Jean Richafort.

Lost Concert Program | Lost Concert Notes by Michael Barrett | Lost Concert Flyer

Saturday, January 25, 2014   7 PM
Cambridge Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge, MA
Ten minutes walk from the Harvard Square Red Line T stop
** All are invited to a reception following the concert

Sunday, January 26, 2014  4 PM
United Parish in Brookline, 210 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA
Five minutes walk from the Coolidge Corner Green Line T stop (the “C” line)
Map/Directions: United Parish web site
** All are invited to a reception following the concert

Spring 2014: Found

The age of European http://www.mindanews.com/buy-imitrex/ exploration spread the Renaissance polyphonic tradition, especially in its Iberian flavor, as far as the New World: both its techniques (via manuscripts) and, in some cases, its practitioners: European composers who settled in New Spain.  Convivium presents a program of works from both sides of the Atlantic: Guerrero, Victoria, Franco and more.   Found Concert Flyer

Found Concert Program ,  includes:

Maria Magdalena Francisco Guerrero (1528 – 1599)
Magnificat Quinti Toni Hernando Franco (1532 – 1585)
O Doctor optime Guerrero
Vidi aquam Tomas Luis de Victoria (c. 1548 – 1611)
Andreas Christi famulus Cristobal de Morales (c. 1500 – 1553)
Exsultate Justi in Domino Juan Gutierrez de Padilla (c. 1595 – 1664)
Lamentations of Jeremiah Guerrero
Tu es Petrus Morales
Salve Regina Franco

Saturday, May 3, 2014   8 PM
Trinity Lutheran Church, 73 Lancaster Street, Worcester, MA
Map/Directions:  Google Maps
** all are invited to a reception following the concert

Sun, May 4, 2014  7 PM
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 15 St. Paul Street, Brookline, MA
10 minutes walk from Brookline Village Green Line T stop (the “D” line)
Map/Directions: St. Paul’s Church web site, Google Maps

Saturday, May 17, 2014  8 PM
Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Five minutes walk from the Harvard Square Red Line T stop
Map/Directions: Harvard-Epworth Church Web site,  Google Maps
** all are invited to a reception following the concert

Sunday, May 18, 2014   4 PM
Christ Church Andover, 33 Central Street, Andover, MA
.5 mile from the Andover Commuter Rail stop (Haverhill line; see mbta.com for map and schedule)
Directions and Parking Info:  Christ Church Andover Web site