Thursday, December 16 8.00pm
Sunday, December 19 3.00pm
NEC’s Jordan Hall

Works by Fux, Pachelbel, Schutz, and others.

Grant Llewellyn, conductor
Handel and Haydn Young Women's Chorus (Lisa Graham, conductor)
Trinity Handbell Ensemble (Griff Gall, Director)

CLICK HERE to listen to Music Director Grant Llewellyn discuss this program.

The great story of Christmastide is retold in this concert through the dancing rhythms and vivid texts of the German seventeenth century. Composers like Schütz and Pachelbel were among the first to take the lively musical inventions of Italy and apply them to their native language. The result is some of the sweetest and most delightful Christmastime music we have—something that may be a welcome change from the usual seasonal soundtrack.

For further information:

http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/schutz.html
A good short biography of Schütz

http://www.usd.edu/eric/music/pachelbel/biography.shtml
An excellent biography of Pachelbel