For those on the go during the holidays, Choral Arts’ annual Christmas concert provides an tiny oasis of calm during December’s hustle and bustle. The choir’s hour-long program of uninterrupted holiday music had two performances over the weekend of December 14-15. Continue reading An Hour of Peaceful Holiday Song With Choral Arts
Seattle Pro Musica celebrates the 100th anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s birth with a concert of Christmas-themed choral works, including yuletide favorite A Ceremony of Carols. Two more performances of the program are scheduled for December 14. Continue reading Seattle Pro Musica Honors Britten’s Legacy With “A Ceremony of Carols”
The holiday concert season is already in full swing, but there’s still a full calendar of festive musical events set to spread Christmas cheer throughout the Seattle area. We’ve compiled a small sampling of yuletide offerings for everyone, from grandma to your hipster cousin. Continue reading What We’re Hearing This Holiday Season: Classical Music Picks For Christmas
There’s something for everyone on our Holiday Music Mix–from beloved classics to cry-in-your-beer holiday dirges to straight-up party tunes–and we’ve got plenty of fodder for next year’s Very SunBreak Yuletide Music Mix to boot. Continue reading The SunBreak Presents a Very Special Holiday Music Mix, Part 1
The heart of the program was an incomplete Mass, Puer natus est, by Thomas Tallis, interspersed with other settings for Advent and Christmas by William Byrd, Robert White, John Taverner, and John Sheppard.
From unison plainchant which ebbed and flowed like speech, to seven intricate, complex parts for the Tallis, Stile Antico sang unaccompanied with exact pitch and no vibrato so that chords were marvels of perfection. Continue reading Stile Antico Creates a Cathedral of Sound at St. James
