San Francisco Renaissance Voices
The Polyphony Project
Seventh Avenue Performances is the venue for The Polyphony Project with San Francisco Renaissance Voices. Each year over five years, San Francisco Renaissance Voices will perform a partial liturgical cycle of sacred music highlighting the work of a particular Renaissance master and related music of his regional style of polyphonic composition. The Projects tentative schedule is:
Morales & the Spanish School 2005
March 11 TENEBRAE (Darkness)
Victorias Tenebrae Responsories
August 12 Feast for the Assumption of the Virgin
Guerreros Missa Sancta et Immaculata
October 28 REQUIEM (Office of the Dead)
Requiems by Cardoso & Morales
The Burgundian
& Early Franco-Flemish School 2006
February 25 CANDLEMAS
Issac's Missa Virgo Prudentissima
July 29 & 30 Feast for St. Jacobus
Dufay's Missa L'homme Arme'
October 28 & 29 REQUIEM (Office of the Dead)
Requiems of Johannes Ockeghem & Pierre de al Rue
The English School 2007
May 5 & 12 TRINITY
Short Services of Tallis & Gibbons with Parson's First Service
July 28 & 29 The REGINA MONOLOGUES
Elizabethan madrigals & music for lute with readings from shakespeare
October 27 & 28 EVENSONG for ALL HALLOW's EVE
Dirge Anthems of Morley & Boyce's Burial Service,
Purcell's Funeral Music for Queen Mary
Josquin de Prez
& the Late Franco-Flemish School 2008
February 10, 17 & 23 Feast for St. Valentine
Janequin's Le Guerre &
Lasso's Missa super Mon coeur se recommande a vous
April 12 & 19 - Feast for St. Fulbert des Chartres
Crecquillon's Sancta Maria, Dufay's Gloria, Josquin's Missa da pacem & Mouton's Missa Alleluia
November 1 & 2 Feast for All Souls
Brumel's Requiem & Josquin's Mille regretz & La deploration de la morte de Johannes Ockeghem
Palestrina & the Italian School 2009
Featuring works by Palestrina, Allegri & Gesualdo
