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Voces Novae et Antiquae’s 2007-2008 season

A Propitious Pairing: Palestrina and Poulenc
March 26, 29 & 30, 2008

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Dum Complerentur Dies Pentecostes
Missa Brevis

Francis Poulenc
Salve Regina
Mass in G major

A Twelfth Night Celebration:
Songs of the Nativity
January 2, 5 & 6, 2008

This program featured the Philadelphia premieres of Ruth Watson Henderson's Songs of the Nativity for treble voices and Hodie Christus Natus Est (1996–7) by Artistic Director Robert Ross, along with works by Elizabeth Alexander, Anton Bruckner, John Gardner, Lesley Hopwood Meyer, and Eric Whitacre on carol and non-liturgical poetry from the Medieval era through the modern era, including texts by Christina Rosetti, William Blake, Edward Esch, Katharine Lee Bates (author of “America the Beautiful”), Robert Lowery, and others.