Upcoming Concerts
COVID-19 Policy: We encourage our audience to wear masks during our concerts but do not require it. We also ask that audience members be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Convivium Musicum 23/24 Season Preview:
Come along with Convivium as we travel all over the map this year! Our season will open with “O Quam Gloriosum: Music of the Late Spanish Renaissance,” where we will present works by Victoria, Morales, and Guerrero. Our winter concert, “Music for a French Cathedral,” will feature works by Ockeghem and Josquin, including several movements from Ockeghem’s Missa pro defunctis and Josquin’s beloved motet Déploration sur la mort d’Ockeghem. We will also celebrate the 550th anniversary of the passing of Dufay. Our spring concert, “Draw On Sweet Night,” will feature a variety of composers all meditating on the thoughts and emotions that arise between dusk and dawn, including Wilbye, Lasso, Aleotti, Palestrina, and more. We hope you will join us for a glorious season of music!
Save the Dates for Convivium’s 2023/24 Concert Season!
O Quam Gloriosum: Music of the Late Spanish Renaissance
Sunday, November 19 at 4:00PM
All Saints Brookline, reception to follow
Sunday, December 3 at 4:00PM
First Unitarian Worcester, reception to follow
Music for a French Cathedral
Sunday, February 25 at 3:00PM
Christ Church Andover, reception to follow
Saturday, March 2 at 7:00PM
Harvard-Epworth Cambridge, reception to follow
Draw On Sweet Night
Saturday, June 1 at 7:00PM
First Unitarian Worcester, reception to follow
Sunday, June 2 at 4:00PM
Trinity Episcopal Newton
We are pleased to be participating in the Card to Culture program by offering up to five free tickets per concert to EBT cardholders. This program is a collaboration between the Mass Cultural Council and the Executive Office of Health and Human Services’ Department of Transitional Assistance, designed to make the power of culture accessible to a wider range of Massachusetts residents. See the full list of participating organizations.
2021 Virtual Concerts
The Measure of My Days
Join Convivium Musicum for an online concert exploring themes of hope, resilience, and community in the face of suffering, injustice, and isolation. The program, The Measure of My Days, explores how composers of the Renaissance drew on familiar poetry – the Psalms – to communicate these themes that still have resonance in our own time, especially in the context of the coronavirus pandemic and contemporary movements for social justice. To underscore this link, we include readings of contemporary poetry inspired by the program alongside our musical offerings.
Professionally recorded in Harvard-Epworth Church in Cambridge, The Measure of My Days presents Renaissance-era musical settings of psalm texts by Josquin de Prez, Orlandus Lassus, Johann Hermann Schein and others, alongside poetry written in our own day.
This event premiered on Saturday, June 26, 2021.
We are also very pleased to have been part of the 2021 Boston Early Music Festival Fringe concert series with an abridged version of this project.