Blue Heron is a professional vocal ensemble that combines a commitment to vivid live performance with the study of original source materials and historical performance practice. Blue Heron’s principal repertoire interests are fifteenth-century English and Franco-Flemish polyphony, ranging from Dunstable and Du Fay through Ockeghem to Josquin; Spanish music between about 1500 and 1575; and neglected early sixteenth-century English music, especially the rich and unexplored repertory of the Peterhouse partbooks (c. 1540).
Most concerts take place at the First Church in Cambridge, Congregational.
"Among the Boston music community's indispensables-it would be sheer folly to miss anything they put before the public." (Boston Globe)
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Music for Three Sovereigns at First Church
Motets for the Emperor Maximilian I and songs for his daughter Marguerite, including settings of the last words of Dido, Queen of Carthage, from the Aeneid; music by Josquin, Isaac, Senfl, Obrecht, and others