2006-2007 Season

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Bonfire of the Vanities
Music of Renaissance Florence under the Medici and Savonarola
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The Art of Imitatio
Elaborations and re-workings by master composers
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The Portuguese Renaissance
Free Community Outreach Concerts
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Friday, March 2, 2007 at 8pm
The First Lutheran Church of Boston
Sunday, March 4, 2007 at 3pm
Cochran Chapel at Phillips Academy Andover

In earlier times, imitation was indeed the greatest form of flattery and the principal means through which composers learned their art; a common practice from the 12th through 17th centuries was to add musical material to preexisting works or incorporate chants and other melodies into larger works. We invite you to join us for a marvelous sampling of these techniques, including organa of Leonin and Perotin, chansons, motets, and mass sections of Machaut, Dufay, Certon, de Vitry, and Lassus, plus Josquin's Mille regrets and Ave Maria with elaborations by Gombert and Senfl.

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Saturday, May 5 at 7pm
St. Anthony of Padua Parish in New Bedford
Sunday, May 6 at 3pm
St. Anthony's Church in Lowell
Tuesday, May 8 at 7:30pm
St. Anthony's Chuch in Cambridge
Saturday, May 12 at 3pm
The First Lutheran Church of Boston

Exsultemus continues its free community outreach series with a return trip to Renaissance Portugal. While the music of Portugal continues the traditions of the great Spanish masters of the Renaissance, the music of composers such as Manuel Cardoso, Duarte Lôbo, Pedro de Cristo, Filipe de Magalhaes, and Estevão de Brito is distinguished by a harmonic richness and flavor all its own. Enjoy sacred polyphony and Portuguese songs representing the life and passions of an almost forgotten repertory. Each concert will be followed by a Meet-the-Artists Reception with Portuguese foods.

Presented in collaboration with the Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers and the Consul General of Portugal's 2007 Boston Portuguese Festival.

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