Name: Divine Songs: Secular chansons & sacred transformations
Start: 2026-10-25T17:00:00
Location: Edwards Church

Blue Heron

Franco-Flemish chansons and the sacred motets and masses that borrow their secular tunes. Featuring music by Binchois, Du Fay, Okeghem, La Rue, and Bauldeweyn.

Divine Songs: Secular chansons & sacred transformations

First Church in Cambridge

Edwards Church

Graceful melodies, exuberant cross-rhythms, and dazzling polyphony to celebrate this festive season. Experience Christmas in England in the 15th century with plainchant, carols, antiphons, and polyphonic Mass settings.

Christmas in Medieval England

The glorious Missa Ecce ancilla domini by Johannes Regis for the Annunciation, plus all four Marian motets by Johannes Okeghem.

Regis & Okeghem

Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church

Step into the Cathedral of Seville to hear music for Holy Week, including Lamentations by Morales and Peñalosa’s Missa Nunca fue pena mayor.

Holy Week in 16th-Century Seville

The most celebrated form of music at the Burgundian court was secular song, but Philip the Good was also an intensely religious man, and his chapel comprised an extraordinary team of singers and composers. The centerpiece concert of our Burgundy Weekend features the elegant counterpoint and ringing harmonies of sacred music by Binchois, Busnoys, Du Fay, and others, including composers who worked for the earlier dukes—Philip the Bold and John the Fearless—and Philip the Good’s son, Duke Charles.