2007-2008 Season

Reservations and information 917-838-4636 info@polyhymnia-nyc.org

Tickets $25, $15 (Students, Seniors, & EMA)

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Tallis and the Tudors Missa Puer natus est nobis Antiphons, Responds & English Anthems Saturday, December 1, 2007

The Church of Saint Ignatius of Antioch West End Avenue & 87th Street New York 8 P.M. Pre-concert presentation 7:15 P.M.

Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585), perhaps the greatest of the Tudor composers, holds pride of place as the only 16th-century composer to have worked for four monarchs of a single ruling dynasty. Tallis composed expansive votive motets for Henry VIII, English settings of the Divine Office for Edward VI, a Flemish inspired mass setting for Mary I and held a monopoly on the printing of music, both  Latin and English, granted by Elizabeth I. Join us for this glorious retrospective of the Fairest Isle’s most versatile and adaptable composer.

Elected of the Lord 17th-Century Mexican Ceremonial Music Music of Gaspar Fernandes, Juan de Lienas & Francisco Lopez Capillas Saturday, March 1, 2008 The Church of Saint Luke in the Fields 487 Hudson Street 8 P.M. Pre-concert presentation 7:15 P.M.

Ceremony and ostentatious display marked every aspect of official culture in baroque Mexico. Polyhymnia's ensemble of voices and instruments will present music written in African and Amerindian dialects by Portuguese-Mexican composer Gaspar Fernandes (1570-1629) to welcome the representative of Spain's Phillip III to Puebla in 1612, elegant polyphony written by Native American composer Juan de Lienas (fl. c.1617 - 1654) and elaborate vesper music by Francisco Lopez Capillas (1608 - 1674).  Join us for this fascinating multi-cultural panorama of baroque Mexico. This concert is presented as part of the Fiesta of Mexican Baroque Music, Feb 26-Mar 1, 2008, sponsored by Polyhymnia and Concerts at St. Luke's, and is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by the Lower Manhattan Community Council, and with support from the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York.

Music for Philip II Music for the Capilla Flamenca by Pierre de Manchicourt Saturday, May 17, 2008

The Church of Saint Ignatius of Antioch West End Avenue & 87th Street New York 8 P.M. Pre-concert presentation 7:15 P.M.

Largely unknown until recently, the music of Pierre de Manchicourt (c.1510-1564) is at last finding its way onto the early music concert stage. Manchicourt, court composer of Philip II of Spain, has been long overshadowed by his more familiar contemporaries, Gombert, Clemens non Papa and Crecquillon. As composer to Philip’s Flemish chapel, Manchicourt wrought music of great beauty; sonorous rich, and mysterious, composed fittingly for the chapel of a King.

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