The Tudor Choir will again offer a subscription series--including a performance by the world-renowned Tallis Scholars--at historic Blessed Sacrament Church in Seattle's University District, where the choir is a resident ensemble. Subscriptions include a ticket to each of the Tudor Choir concerts listed below, and a ticket to the Tallis Scholars concert may also be purchased as part of the subscripton. General subscriptions for the three Tudor Choir concerts represent a 20% discount off single ticket prices. Subscribers and their guests sit in a reserved section in the front of the church. Tallis Scholars tickets are reserved by row and seat number.

In response to a number of requests, we are offering a senior rate this season!

For those that might be out of town for the holidays, please consider subscribing and giving your December concert tickets away as a gift!

Series #1
The Tudor Choir
SIMPLE GIFTS: Shaker tunes & Anglo-Americana
Saturday, October 22, 2011 at 7:30 PM

Series #2
The Tudor Choir
IN DULCI JUBILO: A Renaissance Christmas
Friday, December 30, 2011 at 7:30 PM

Series #3
The Tudor Choir
WILLIAM BYRD and the Gunpowder Plot
Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 7:30 PM

Special Performance
THE TALLIS SCHOLARS: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
Music by Cornysh, Browne, and Mouton
Friday, March 23, 2012 at 8:00 PM

Blessed Sacrament Church
5041 9th Ave. NE
Seattle, WA 98105
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TICKETS $60 general admission | $50 student & senior

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See below for details about each series concert.
Co-presented by the Tudor Choir and Blessed Sacrament Church.

SINGLE TICKETS $25 general admission | $20 student & senior
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William Byrd was the foremost English composer of the late-16th and early-17th centuries. A staunch Catholic, Byrd maintained a high profile while being closely associated with the Jesuits and other recusant Catholics. His motets commenting on the plight of English Catholics, as well as his music appropriate for the Jesuits' popular Forty Hours' Devotion, held special meaning in the context of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot--the famed failed assassination attempt against King James I.

The Tudor Choir presents an all-Byrd program of impassioned motets and serene devotional settings, including music for the Votive Mass of the Blessed Sacrament.

Joining the choir as narrator will be Marta Zekan, KING FM Arts Channel director and longtime KING FM staff announcer.

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PROGRAM
BYRD: Why do I use my paper, ink, and pen
BYRD: Sing joyfully unto God our strength
BYRD: Circumspice Hierusalem
BYRD: Quomodo cantabimus
BYRD: O salutaris hostia
BYRD: Laudibus in sanctis
BYRD: Ne irascaris

Votive Mass of the Blessed Sacrament
BYRD: Introit—Cibavit eos
BYRD: Tract—Ab ortus solis
BYRD: Offertory—Sacerdotes Domini
BYRD: Communion—Quotiescunque manducabitis

BYRD: Ave verum corpus
BYRD: Tribue, Domine

Friday, March 23, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Blessed Sacrament Church
5041 9th Ave. NE
Seattle, WA 98105
Directions >>

TICKETS

Reserved seating:
$50 Preferred reserved (first 8 rows)
$40 General admission reserved
$35 Senior reserved
$25 Student reserved

Non-reserved seating:
$35 North or South Transept non-reserved
$25 Gallery non-reserved

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The world-renowned, London-based Tallis Scholars, directed by Peter Phillips, perform a program of early 16th-century English and French polyphony inspired by the 1520 political summit known as the "Field of the Cloth of Gold." Don't miss a rare opportunity to hear this leading international vocal ensemble performing unaccompanied Renaissance sacred music in their debut at historic Blessed Sacrament Church.

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PROGRAM
MOUTON: Nesciens mater
CORNYSH: Ave Maria
MOUTON: Ave Maria
MOUTON: Quaeramus cum pastoribus
BROWNE: Salve regina
MOUTON: Kyrie & Agnus Dei, from Missa Dictes moy toutes vos pensees
MOUTON: Salva nos
CORNYSH: Ah Robin
CORNYSH: Woefully arrayed
CORNYSH: Magnificat