Concerts 2011-2012 Season

Program Descriptions:

Anthology: 25 Years with Anonymous 4

To mark their 25th year together, Anonymous 4 have created a truly unique and very special concert program, ANTHOLOGY 25. It features ancient, traditional and modern works from each of their 19 prize-winning, chart-topping harmonia mundi cds, in one, two, three and four voices, ranging from 11th century plainchant, richly harmonic English conductus and spicy French motets of the 13th century, exotic 15th-century Hungarian polyphony, 19th century shape note hymns, and contemporary works.

Looking to the future, the program includes a new work for Anonymous 4 by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang.

Secret voices: The Sisters of Las Huelgas

2011-2012 CD RELEASE PROGRAM

This varied repertoire of 13th-century polyphony and sacred Latin song in the Spanish Las Huelgas Codex was collected for a convent of noble and aristocratic women. In spite of a rule forbidding the singing of polyphony by the women of their order, these sophisticated ladies sang the most beautiful, advanced, and demanding music from all over Europe in the 13th century.

Sisters in Spirit: Sacred Song from Medieval Spain to Early America

2011-2012 CD RELEASE PROGRAM

Anonymous 4 travels from old world to new: the first half of this program contains 13th-century polyphony and sacred Latin song made for the nuns of the famous Spanish convent, Las Huelgas, all featured on the groupâ??s newest CD, Secret Voices; the second half is a collection of Anglo-American tunes from their hit recordings American Angels and Gloryland.