March 2016 • Mass

Revel with Sacred and Profane as we sing two masterworks of the English a cappella canon. We will begin with William Byrd’s sixteenth-century Mass for Five Voices, a transportive masterpiece that is among the most poignant works of the Renaissance era. The program will also include Ralph Vaughan Williams’ mystical Mass in G Minor. Composed in 1921 for unaccompanied double chorus and soloists, this Mass is considered one of the greatest works of English polyphony written since Byrd’s time.

Saturday, March 5th, 2016 at 8 PM St. Mark’s Episcopal Church 2300 Bancroft Way (at Ellsworth), Berkeley

Sunday, March 6th, 2016 at 4 PM St. Francis Lutheran Church 152 Church Street (btwn Duboce & Market), San Francisco