Concerts from 2018-2019

ZEPHYRUS PRESENTS
Draw On, Sweet Night: Nocturnes, Benedictions & Dream-Songs

Sunday, October 14, 2018 
7:00 p.m.
St. Benedict Catholic Church
300 N. Sheppard St.
Richmond, VA

In October, Zephyrus repeats a wide-ranging program of music for the night. Motets for the evening compline service by Renaissance composers Thomas Tallis and John Sheppard are juxtaposed with the ethereal music of contemporary composers Eric Whitacre and Tarik O’Regan.

ZEPHYRUS PRESENTS
An English Renaissance Christmas

Friday, December 7, 2018
7:30 p.m.
St. Paul’s Memorial Church
1701 University Ave.
Charlottesville, VA

Saturday, December 8, 2018
3:30 p.m.
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
7599 Rockfish Gap Turnpike
(U. S. 250 West)
Greenwood, VA

In Renaissance England, Christmas music was as richly diverse as it was sublimely beautiful, with chants and polyphony for use in church as well as carols and songs for the home or tavern. The program includes motets by Byrd, Tallis, Taverner, and Parsons; Sheppard's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for eight-part choir; as well as traditional carols.

ZEPHYRUS PRESENTS
Evening Choral Eucharist

Sunday, April 7, 2019
5:30 p.m.
St. Paul’s Memorial Church
1701 University Ave.
Charlottesville, VA

Zephyrus sang a special evening mass at St. Paul's Memorial Church, which offered both singers and listeners the unique opportunity to hear 17th-century polyphony in its original liturgical setting. This candlelit service featured the double-choir Missa Pulchra es by Giovanni Francesco Anerio, as well as motets by Clemens non Papa and Tomás Luis de Victoria.

ZEPHYRUS PRESENTS
Song of Songs: Settings Ancient and Modern

Saturday, May 4, 2019
7:30 p.m.
St. Paul’s Memorial Church
1701 University Ave.
Charlottesville, VA

The Song of Songs is one of the strangest and most beautiful books in the Bible. Its erotic love poetry makes no mention of God or Wisdom, the Law or morality. To be considered sacred literature it must be understood symbolically, as an allegory of the relationship between God and humans. The book has inspired artists and musicians for centuries, and this program combines music from the Renaissance and the present day, with works by Anerio, Senfl, Moody, and Gjeilo.