Seeing the Star: Reflections on the Nativity

When:
Saturday, Dec 09, 2017 8:00p -
10:00p

Where:
First Lutheran Church of Boston
299 Berkeley Street
Boston, MA 02116

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Admission:
$20/15

Categories:
Music, Performing Arts

Event website:
http://www.orianaconsort.org/concerts/201712.html

The Oriana Consort presents "Seeing the Star: Reflections on the Nativity"


The age-old familiar story of the Nativity, as told from various perspectives:


• the immortal words of the scriptures, set to immaculate choral music by six composers of the late Renaissance and early Baroque.
• the evocative poetry of Richard Crashaw, a near-contemporary of Shakespeare, set for choral voices by Kenneth Leighton: A Hymn of the Nativity.
• the foreboding poetry of Laurie Lee, a 20th-century British poet, set for choral voices by Samuel Barber: Twelfth Night.
• the poetry of a handful of 17th-century Lutheran theologians, brought together as the text of Bach’s Cantata BWV 40: Dazu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes (For this the Son of God appeared).


Also in Cambridge on Friday, December 1, and in Brookline on Sunday, December 3.

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