Our Next Concerts:
Music of Machaut, Hildegard, Palestrina, and Stravinsky
Please join the Ann Arbor Grail Singers in Spring 2024 for a program of music by Hildegard of Bingen, Guillaume de Machaut, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and Igor Stravinsky.
The keystone work of the program is Machaut’s Messe de Nostre Dame (Mass of Our Lady), often attributed as the first example of a complete setting of the Ordinary of the Mass by a single composer. Composed before 1365, the mass features Machaut’s four-voice polyphonic writing with some brief chant interludes.
The program will also feature chants by Hildegard (12th century), a Magnificat setting by Palestrina (16th century), and the female chorus movements of Stravinsky’s 1952 Cantata (based on the old English texts of the Lyke-Wake dirge), all accompanied by a small instrumental ensemble.
Mark Your Calendars
We will perform this program at two concerts in the Ann Arbor area and would love to see you there! Information about tickets, including online ticket sales, to come.
Friday, May 17, 7:30 p.m.
St. Joseph Catholic Parish (Village Campus)
3430 Dover St.
Dexter MI 48130
Sunday, May 19, 4:00 p.m.
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church
306 N. Division St.
Ann Arbor MI 48104
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church
306 N. Division St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104
(734) 663-0518
Parking is available at the Liberty Square Parking Garage, three blocks south of St. Andrew’s at 510 E. Washington Street. Flat rate of $3 after 3 p.m. Some free parking spaces are available in the Community High School lot, across the street from the church. Enter via 5th Avenue and Detroit Street. The St. Andrew’s parking lot is available only for accessible parking. Enter via Catherine Street.