Please join us for our 2007-2008 season

Friday, October 19 at 8pm
First Lutheran Church of Boston

Sunday, October 21 at 3pm
Christ Church Andover

Though the seeds of the Baroque first flowered in Italy, France was not far behind. They too sought to recover the powerful emotive effects of ancient music; their approach emphasized the meter of French poetry, yielding a new unique approach to rhythm known as musique mesurée à l'antique. Like their Italian counterparts, the French were also inspired by the Greek lyre, and polyphonic chansons evolved into solo airs de cour accompanied by the lute and instrumental intabulations. Join Exsultemus and special guest Catherine Liddell in a splendid program of this rarely performed repertoire with works by Costeley, de Courville, Mauduit, Moulinié, and Le Jeune.

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Friday, February 1 at 8pm
First Lutheran Church of Boston

Sunday, February 3 at 3pm
Christ Church Andover

Louis IX is one of the most revered rulers in French history, the quintessential example of the Christian prince with a reputation for saintliness, fairness, and cultivation of France's rich culture. Exsultemus' acclaimed liturgical reconstruction series celebrates the feast-day of this beloved "protector of the faith" with a Vespers service as it might have been performed in the mid-16th century at the glorious Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris with Medieval plainchant and Renaissance polyphony by Jean Maillard, Claudin de Sermisy, and Josquin Des Prez.

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Join us on Saturday, January 26 at 6:30pm at the Goethe-Institut Boston for a special preview evening featuring a scholarly presentation by Dr. Eric Rice accompanied by delicious food and wine. Please call 857-998-0219 for details and reservations.

Victoria and the
Spanish 'Nation' in Rome

Wednesday, June 18 at 7:30pm
First Lutheran Church of Boston
299 Berkeley Street in the Back Bay
FREE ADMISSION, refreshments to follow
First Lutheran is air conditioned!

Sunday, June 22 at 6pm
Christ the King Church in Old Lyme, CT
Presented by the Connecticut Early Music Festival
For tickets, please call 860-439-2787.

Beginning in 1492, Spain began an unprecedented period of cultural domination. Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile—presiding over a throne united by marriage—succeeded in capturing the last Moorish stronghold in Granada, in beginning to colonize the Americas, and, with the election of Roderigo Borgia as the first Spanish pope, in achieving unparalleled access to the Papacy. The Spanish influence in Rome (and the New World) was palpable for the next two centuries, not least in the area of liturgical music. In this program, Exsultemus presents some of the most powerful and widely-traveled music by Spanish composers active in Rome during the sixteenth century, including excerpts from Tomás Luis de Victoria’s moving Lamentations for Holy Week.

Sarah Bellott, Lydia Brotherton, Shannon Canavin & Teresa Wakim, soprano
Thea Lobo & Martin Near, alto
Jason McStoots & Steven Soph, tenor
Brian Church & Ulysses Thomas, bass
Eric Rice, music director