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Christmas in 15th-Century France & Burgundy (2018)
Saturday, December 1, 2018 at 7:30 pm
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Wellesley, MA
Sunday, December 2, 2018 at 7 pm
The Music Room at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC
Presented by Music at Dumbarton Oaks
Monday, December 3, 2018 at 8 pm
The Music Room at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC
Presented by Music at Dumbarton Oaks
Friday, December 21, 2018 at 8 pm
Saturday, December 22, 2018 at 2:30 pm
Saturday, December 22, 2018 at 8 pm
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
Sunday, December 23, 2018 at 4 pm
S. Stephen’s Church, Providence, RI

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Advent
Plainchant
O clavis David (O-antiphon for December 20)
Jacob Obrecht (1457/8-1505)
Factor orbis
Plainchant
O virgo virginum (O-antiphon for December 24)
Josquin Desprez (c. 1455-1521)
O virgo virginum
Guillaume Du Fay (c. 1397-1474)
Conditor alme siderum (alternatim hymn for Advent)
Antoine Brumel (c. 1460-c.1512)
Ave Maria gratia dei plena

Christmas
Johannes Regis (c. 1425-1426)
O admirabile commercium / Verbum caro factum est

INTERMISSION

Christmas
Du Fay
Letabundus (Christmas sequence)
Adrian Willaert (c. 1490-1562)
Praeter rerum seriem

New Year’s Day
Nicolas Grenon (c. 1380-1456)
La plus belle et doulce figure
Guillaume Malbecque (c. 1400-1465)
Dieu vous doinst bon jour et demy
Baude Cordier (d. 1397/8?)
Dame excellent ou sont bonté, scavoir
Johannes Tinctoris (c. 1435-1511?)
De tous biens playne (instrumental)
Gilles Binchois (c. 1400-1460)
Margarite, fleur de valeur
Du Fay
Ce jour de l’an voudray joie mener

Christmas
Johannes Ciconia (c. 1370-1412)
Gloria Spiritus et alme
Brumel
Nato canunt omnia

BLUE HERON
Jennifer Ashe, Pamela Dellal, Martin Near, Daniela Tosic, cantus
Michael Barrett, Jason McStoots, Stefan Reed, Mark Sprinkle, Sumner Thompson, tenor & contratenor
Paul Guttry, Steven Hrycelak, bassus
Laura Jeppesen, vielle & rebec
Charles Weaver, lute & voice
Scott Metcalfe, harp, director