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Cantata Singers celebrates the holiday season with two opportunities to hear \u201cA Cantata Singers Christmas\u201d\u2014 on Friday, December 7th, and on Sunday, December 9th, both at First Lutheran Church in the heart of Boston\u2019s Back Bay.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cantata Singers<\/a>\u2019 Music Director David Hoose leads a program of radiant Baroque and Renaissance seasonal music for chamber chorus and ensemble. The program begins with Slovene composer Jacobus Gallus Handl\u2019s (1550-1591) \u201cMirabile mysterium,\u201d which features a style popular in Renaissance Venice of spatially separate choirs singing in alternation. Following is German composer Heinrich Sch\u00fctz\u2019s (1585-1672) exquisite \u201cDulcissime et benignissime Christe,\u201d representing some of the best counterpoint written in the seventeenth century. Giovanni Gabrieli\u2019s (1554-1612) \u201cO magnum mysterium\u201d also exhibits the Venetian polychoral style of two alternating and distinct choirs made up of four voices each.<\/p>\n About Cantata Singers\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n A singular desire to bring to Boston\u2019s listeners music that isn\u2019t being heard anywhere else has inspired Cantata Singers\u2019 programming for 55 years.<\/p>\n Many of Boston\u2019s most talented musicians perform regularly with Cantata Singers. The chorus is made up of singers who have careers as musicians, educators, doctors, and architects. Many of these members appear as soloists with Cantata Singers, as well as with other highly respected organizations; some conduct other choruses and orchestras in the area. Although many of our musicians perform actively as solo singers, they choose to sing with Cantata Singers because of the reward they find in performing music of the choral canon at the highest possible level.<\/p>\n Cantata Singers has always focused on the music\u2014be it by Bach, Verdi, Harbison, or P\u00e4rt\u2014and its audiences do, too. Our audiences return year after year to hear fresh visions of iconic music, or an intriguing unfamiliar work that is\u2014in fact\u2014quite approachable. Each Cantata Singers concert is often surprising, sometimes challenging, always beautiful, and ultimately inspiring.<\/p>\n WHEN:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n December 7, Friday, 8:00 pm<\/p>\n December 9, Sunday, 3:00 pm<\/p>\n WHERE:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n First Lutheran Church, Boston, 299 Berkeley Street, Boston<\/p>\n TICKETS:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n $25 – $75<\/p>\n purchase by calling 617-868-5885 or visiting the Cantata Singers website<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n