Upcoming Concerts & Performances
5 upcoming concerts and performances from Blue Heron, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All classical in Greater Boston →
Sat Oct 24 · 3:00pm
Franco-Flemish love songs set beside the motets and masses that Renaissance composers built from their tunes — music by Binchois, Du Fay, Okeghem, Agricola, La Rue and Bauldeweyn, the secular original and its sacred remaking heard together. Blue Heron sings, directed by Scott Metcalfe.
$10–$96; under 18 free
Fri Dec 18 – Sat Dec 19
Fri Dec 18 · 8pm / Sat Dec 19 · 3pm & 8pm
Fifteenth-century English music for Christmas: plainchant and carols, antiphons, and polyphonic settings of the Mass, full of the graceful melody, exuberant cross-rhythm and dazzling polyphony of the period. A dozen voices of Blue Heron, the Cambridge Renaissance choir, sing under founder and artistic director Scott Metcalfe.
$10–$96; under 18 free
Sat Feb 6 · 3:00pm
Johannes Regis's Missa Ecce ancilla Domini, written for the Annunciation, set beside all four of Okeghem's Marian motets — two Franco-Flemish contemporaries, one far less heard than the other, in a single programme. Blue Heron sings, directed by Scott Metcalfe.
$10–$96; under 18 free
Sat Mar 13 · 3:00pm
Holy Week music from the Cathedral of Seville: Lamentations by the Seville-born Cristóbal de Morales and Peñalosa's Missa Nunca fue pena mayor, the dense, dark polyphony of the sixteenth-century Spanish repertory. Blue Heron sings under its artistic director, Scott Metcalfe.
$10–$96; under 18 free
Fri Apr 30 – Sun May 2
Fri Apr 30 · 7pm / Sat May 1 · 10am & 3pm & 7pm / Sun May 2 · 6pm
A three-day festival on the music of fifteenth-century Burgundy: an opening concert of songs and sacred works by Binchois, Du Fay and Busnoys, Saturday talks by scholars of Burgundian art and poetry, and a closing cabaret in ducal style. Blue Heron and its director Scott Metcalfe host the weekend.
