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2015-16 Season Subscription

A season subscription to the Medieval Women's Choir's 2015-16 season offers one ticket for each of the three regular season concerts at a 25% discount over single ticket prices. This season features the following events:

NATUS EST REX!
December 19, 2015
8:00 PM
St. James Cathedral, 804 9th Ave, Seattle

Celebrate the holiday season with solemn hymns, irresistible dances, luscious motets, and songs of praise for St. Nicholas, the Virgin Mary, the New Year, and of course, Christmas. Our European holiday tour draws on music from Italy, Aquitaine, France, Spain and England.

THE SONGS OF THE ANGELS
March 5, 2015
8:00 PM
Trinity Parish Church, 609 8th Ave, Seattle

What is the language of heaven? What is the song of the angels? Medieval theologians and singers thought they might know. Beginning in the 11th century, wordless song was seen as a way to approximate the language of paradise, incomprehensible on earth but understood by God. Recent research has shown how medieval singers interpolated such singing into their daily devotions, expressing the joys of the divine in language both earthly and heavenly.

VISIONS IN THE CLOISTER
May 21, 2015
8:00 PM
Trinity Parish Church, 609 8th Ave, Seattle

It is hard for us to imagine the intense spiritual life of the medieval cloister, where mystical visions were commonplace. "Sister Books," collections of short biographies of the cloister's former residents, were assembled to provide an example and inspiration for younger nuns; visions figure in many of the accounts and are often associated with particular pieces of music. Join the Medieval Women's Choir as we explore the ecstatic inner lives of medieval nuns.