Christmas in Baroque Germany
Friday, December 20, 2019 • 7:30 PM
Saturday, December 21, 2019 • 2:30 & 7:30 PM
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
11 Garden Street (Next to the Sheraton Commander)
A new Christmas program! Music by Michael Praetorius, Samuel Scheidt, Johann Hermann Schein, and other early 17th-century masters brought to glorious life by twelve singers, a five-part violin band, organ, theorbo, and the brilliant cornetts, sackbuts, and recorders of the Dark Horse Consort. The concert will feature settings of the advent hymn, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland.
Doors and box office open 30 minutes before each concert (N.B. There are no pre-concert talks this December)
BLUE HERON (Scott Metcalfe, dir.)
Jennifer Ashe
Michael Barrett
Megan Chartrand
Pamela Dellal
Paul Guttry
David McFerrin
Jason McStoots
Martin Near
Mark Sprinkle
Sonja DuToit Tengblad
Teresa Wakim
Dark Horse Consort: Kiri Tollaksen, Alexandra Opsahl, Greg Ingles, Erik Schmalz & Mack Ramsey, cornettos, trombones & recorders
Julie Andrijeski, violin
Anna Griffis, viola
Laura Jeppesen, viola
Scott Metcalfe, violin
Emily Walhout, bass violin
Eric Milnes, organ
Charles Weaver, theorbo
Buy in advance and save: $75 Sec. A / $49 Sec. B / $35 Sec. C (General) / $27 Senior (General) / $10 Student/Low Income (General)
At the door: $78 / $52 / $38 / $30 / $10
Under 18 admitted free