Advent and Christmas in the Churches of Rome

We are looking forward to welcoming you as we resume our 25th Season!

There is no pre-concert lecture for this event.

Polyhymnia, ensemble-in-residence at The Church of St. Ignatius of Antioch, returns to the concert stage to continue its 25th Anniversary Season with a concert of music from the Roman School. Renaissance Rome was a renowned center of music and art. Thanks to the patronage of the Papacy, its magnificence was almost unequaled in 16th-century Europe. The Sistine Chapel had the most famous choir, but other churches in Rome also had fine musical organizations. Santa Maria Maggiore, San Giovanni in Laterano, Collegio Germanico and the great Basilica Papale di San Pietro, home of the renowned Cappella Giulia. Composers included Cristóbal Morales, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Gregorio Allegri, each contributing to the musical treasury of these iconic institutions, leaving today’s music lovers a vast musical legacy, much of which is still sung today. The centerpiece of this concert will be Allegri’s Missa Salvatorem expectamus. Allegri, best known for the Miserere mei, was also a celebrated composer of 17th Century masses and motets. Since he wrote very little of the Miserere, this concert will offer the audience the opportunity to more fully appreciate the genius of this accomplished composer.

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