A concert of Renaissance Christmas music might seem like an odd place for a world premiere, but a new composition by Nico Muhly found a way to harmonize with the polyphony of Palestrina, Byrd, and ...

Ever heard of Tomás Luis de Victoria? I have — and how. When I was a college student in the 1960s, the head of the music department at the school I attended wrote his Ph.D. thesis on Victoria, a ...

Some may find sacred music composer Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina’s work challenging to sing but the Midwest Motet Society is up to the challenge. The Flossmoor-based chamber choir presents “Rome ...

March is choral month in Seattle, with half-a-dozen ensembles giving concerts in the next few weeks. That makes for some difficult concertgoing choices. But if you plan carefully you can get to all of ...

The choir is small, just 10 singers, and Cadogan Hall has a dry acoustic, at least compared to the vast basilicas of Northern Italy, so these were intimate readings. The broadly chronological survey ...

Chairman Simon O’Hea said: “Come and join the Renaissance Choir to hear choral music inspired by texts from the Song of Songs. Over the ages, composers have found these texts to be a great source of ...