Artistic Director Patrick Dupre Quigley gives you a crash course on the history of Western music in one lively evening with chorus, period keyboard instruments, and viola de gamba. You’ll hear the contrasts and connections between eras: the stark simplicity of Medieval chant, the rich polyphony of the Renaissance, the ornate structure of the Baroque, the elegant balance of the Classical, the passionate intensity of the Romantic, and the creative ingenuity of the Contemporary. Don’t miss this chance to experience the evolution of Western music in a new and exciting way.

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Seraphic Fire Presents A Brief History Of Western Music

Kravis Center for the Performing Arts

Patrick Dupre Quigley, director of the Miami-based ensemble Seraphic Fire, returns to lead the Music of the Baroque Chorus and Orchestra in a musical marriage of the earthly and the sublime. Dance in your seat to the visceral rhythms of Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 1 and lose yourself in the palpable chill of “The Frost Scene” from Purcell’s King Arthur. Allegri’s ethereal Miserere mei, Deus and Handel’s thrilling Dixit Dominus propel the program to the heavens.

Heaven & Earth

Fourth Presbyterian Church

Sts Faith, Hope, And Charity Catholic Church

The New York Times calls Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan as “ceaselessly inventive, evocative and penetrating.” He joins Pacific Symphony on a spiritual journey with his major commission “Fiat Lux” (“Let There Be Light”), a perfect pairing to Strauss’ eternal tone poem “Death and Transfiguration.”

Cathedrals of Sound

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

The remarkable Stile Antico marks its twentieth season by honoring the 500th anniversary of one of the greatest masters of Renaissance polyphony, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, whose career was inextricably intertwined with the Papacy and the great churches of Rome for which he composed. The program includes some of the composer’s most beloved and timeless motets, gems by other leading composers active in Rome at that time, and a new work by British composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad, written especially for this occasion.

Stile Antico

Church of St. Mary the Virgin

The ORA singers present a concert themed around ‘the passing of the Year’, centred around Jonathan Dove’s song-cycle of the same name for double choir and piano, alongside Renaissance songs celebrating sacred feast days, poetry for each season and new work from Manchester-based composer Emily Pedersen, and BBC Philharmonic composer-in-residence Tom Coult.

Gregorio Allegri

Events

Upcoming events

Mar 29, 2025

Stile Antico · Miller Theatre

Apr 29, 2025

ORA Singers · The Stoller Hall

Past events

Oct 13, 2024

Seraphic Fire Presents A Brief History Of Western Music · Kravis Center

12 - 17 May, 2024

Heaven & Earth · Music of the Baroque

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