Early Music Missouri continues its collaborative presentations with the St. Louis Art Museum on December 19 with a free concert of holiday music from the High Renaissance. The program takes place in Farrell Auditorium as part of SLAM’s Festive Friday events. This performance reprises Early Music Missouri’s popular program of instrumental and vocal music from the High Renaissance.
The program celebrates the Christmas season with vocal and instrumental music ranging from Gregorian chant to High Renaissance motets. The vocal repertoire includes Tomás Luis de Victoria’s O magnum mysterium, Josquin des Prez’s Ave Maria…virgo serena, an 8-voice Magnificat by Luca Marenzio, and other seasonal motets by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and others. Early Music Missouri’s Renaissance band features a wind consort of recorders and dulcian, early strings and lutes. Instrumental music on the concert includes works by Andrea Gabrieli, Ludwig Senfl, Samuel Scheidt and others.
The concert is free and open to the public. Parking lots on Art Hill offer free street parking while the SLAM parking garage offers paid, covered parking with direct access to the museum.
