Renaissance Voices

I’m excited to be conducting Songs of the Earth, our concert celebrating the blue planet at St. Luke’s Cathedral on Sunday, May 17, at 2:00 PM While one program can offer only a small sampling of the huge number pieces that our world has inspired over the centuries, it is our pleasure to bring you the widest variety that we can in this concert. Among the words that inspired our composers are a biblical evocation of the rising spirit of spring, medieval celebrations of summer, a catalogue of stylized bird calls compiled and set by the 16th Century composer Clément Janequin, and celebrations of the German and English countrysides set by the Mendelssohn siblings Felix and F***y, and Ralph Vaughan Williams respectively. I’ve set a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay imagining the beauties of the seaside from a geographical or psychological place far away, while the African-American poet William Stanley Braithwaite conjures an almost palpable lakeside scene on an August evening in a setting by Peaks Island composer Faith York. Other composers include Healey Willan from Canada, Orlando di Lasso from Flanders, and two other Americans: John Harrison Tenney from Massachusetts and Frank Ticheli from Michigan (who provides his own text about how music can heal the pain of a war-torn earth and spirit). I hope that our offerings will serve to deepen your experience and love of what the Book of Common Prayer calls “this fragile earth, our island home” and that you’ll get your tickets at www.renaissancevoices.net. RV friends, see you at St. Luke’s!

Tickets now on sale!

We're on our holiday break now, but we'll soon be back together rehearsing for the spring. RV friends, please save the date!

Thanks to all RV friends for coming out to last weekend’s concerts, particularly those of you who made up an almost full house despite Sunday’s snowstorm. Watch this space for news about our Spring concert, coming soon!

Just a reminder that online ticket sales end tomorrow. Hope to see you at St. Luke’s this weekend!

We're halfway through the rehearsal cycle and will have some beautiful music for you in December! Tickets now on sale; see the poster for details.

October 12: Happy 153rd to RVW from RV.

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea Harold Stover conducts Renaissance Voices in an SATB arrangement by Arthur Somerville.

First rehearsal of the new season tomorrow - RV friends, please save the dates!

30th anniversary search finale on Saturday!

From Harold Stover: Thanks to the singers of Renaissance Voices for really fine work in our 30th anniversary gala concert. It's a real pleasure to work with them week after week. It was also great to see some RV alumni who came back for the celebrations of reception on Saturday and concert on Sunday. Local friends: if you missed it, we'll be taking our usual end-of-season ferry ride over to Peaks Island for a repetition (at a bargain ticket price) and I'd would love to see you there.