2024-2025
Echoes of Poland: A Journey Through Polish Vocal Masterpieces
Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 4:00pm
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
6800 Columbia Pike, Annandale, VA 22003
Free parking • Free-will donation
Join us for an enchanting evening celebrating the rich and diverse heritage of Polish vocal music. Our concert features an exquisite selection of lesser-known works, showcasing the profound beauty and spiritual depth of Poland’s choral tradition. Featuring works by Bartłomiej Pękiel and many more!
Holiday “Lobbying” at the Willard
Wednesday December 11, 2024 at 6:00 and 7:15pm
Willard InterContinental Washington Hotel
1401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004 view map
Metro: Federal Triangle
Free admission • Valet parking • Limited seating
Ring in the season in the beautifully decorated lobby of the historic Willard Hotel — the very space where “lobbying” got its name. Enjoy beloved traditional and early fare, including English medieval carols, Praetorius’ Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen, Daniel Read’s rousing Sherburne, and much more. As always, the festivities will end with a sing-along of Franz Gruber’s own early setting of his beloved Stille Nacht (Silent Night).
Don’t miss this joyful annual event! Seating is first come, first served; there is ample standing room.
Una Festa Italiana: Music of Casulana, Aleotti, and More
Saturday, March 22, 2025 at 7:00pm
The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer
6201 Dunrobbin Drive at MacArthur Boulevard
Bethesda MD 20816
Free street parking
Celebrate the rich heritage of Italy with Una Festa Italiana, featuring choral masterpieces by Italian composers. Discover hidden gems by pioneering women composers Maddalena Casulana and Vittoria Aleotti. Join us for an enchanting evening of Italian music. Viva l’Italia!
Les Cieux en Chacun Lieu: Vocal Music of the French Reformation
Sunday, May 11, 2025 at 4:00 pm
Church of the Little Flower
5607 Massachusetts Ave., Bethesda, MD 20816
Free street parking
Embark on a historical journey through the profound and inspiring vocal music of the French Reformation. This concert features an extraordinary selection of works by composers whose music shaped the spiritual and cultural landscape of 16th-century France.
2023-2024
O Magnum Mysterium
A Spanish Renaissance Christmas
Saturday, December 2, 2023 at 4:00 pm
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church
6800 Columbia Pike, Annandale, VA 22003
Free parking • Free-will donation
We invite you to share in the awe and joy of the season through glorious music from the courts and cathedrals of Spain. Offerings include Victoria’s haunting motet O magnum mysterium and the Mass he based on it; treble motets and melodious villancicos by Guerrero, Morales, and Encina; and Flecha the Elder’s rambunctious, shipwreck-themed Christmas parable in dialog, La bomba.
Holiday Lobbying at the Willard
Monday, December 4, 2023 at 5:30 and 6:45 pm
(45-minute program, two performances)
Willard InterContinental Washington Hotel
1401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004
Metro: Federal Triangle
Free admission • Valet parking • Limited seating
Ring in the season in the beautifully decorated lobby of the historic Willard Hotel — the very space where “lobbying” got its name. Enjoy beloved traditional and early fare, including English medieval carols, Praetorius’ Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen, Daniel Read’s rousing Sherburne, and much more. As always, the festivities will end with a sing-along of Franz Gruber’s own early setting of his beloved Stille Nacht (Silent Night).
Don’t miss this joyful annual event! Seating is first come, first served; there is ample standing room.
Franco-Flemish Masters
Saturday, March 2, 2024 at 4:00 pm
Beverley Hills Community United Methodist Church
3512 Old Dominion Blvd, Alexandria, VA 22305
Free street parking • Free-will offering
For over a hundred years, musicians raised in northern France and the Low Countries who gained positions of influence across the continent were in the vanguard of European art music. Composers of the early 1400s were praised for mixing complex French counterpoint with English sweetness and Italian lyricism. Succeeding generations melded the styles into a truly international idiom — widely spread after printed music appeared around 1500 — in which the ingenious interplay of equal voices increasingly served to project both sonic beauty and the impact of the sung word. We will present highlights of that evolution, sampling music by Dufay, Busnoys, Obrecht, Brumel, and others, including Josquin’s transcendent Ave Maria…virgo serena and his profound lament on the death of music’s “good father,” Jean Ockeghem.
Now Is the Month of Maying
Saturday, May 18, 2024 at 4:00 pm
Resurrection Evangelical Lutheran Church
6201 Washington Blvd, Arlington, VA 22205
Free street parking • Free-will offering
The advent of efficient music printing around 1530 spurred a market that reached well beyond traditional courtly audiences to include musically literate members of a growing merchant class. New types of social music flourished, ultimately ranging from straightforward multi-verse part songs to ambitious creations crafted to wring every nuance of image and passion from their poetry. We will present Italian and English madrigals, French chansons, villanellas, and more.
Your donations at this performance will benefit Mandehah (“Going Forward”), a non-profit that works to improve access to clean water, adequate nutrition, dental health, and immunizations against illness in rural Madagascar. Learn more at www.mandehah.net.