At the Christmas Market is the group's December edition of its neighborhood series and will be devoted to old-time German holiday get-togethers.
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“Often at Christmastime in the past we have done geographical concerts: Baroque Christmas in Mexico, Christmas in England, A French Christmas,” says Mercury artistic director Antoine Plante. “There is this rich tradition of Christmas markets in Germany, and we thought that it would be a good inspiration to bring to life some of that music.”
The concerts will open with a magnificat, or hymn of praise, by Thomas Selle, the 17th-century German composer who compiled more than 280 pieces of sacred vocal music into a work known as Opera omnia. The program also includes several motets, polyphonic pieces of sacred choral music; the anonymous 16th-century drinking song “vitrum nostrum”; and a number of dances arranged by Michael Praetorius, a key figure in the development of several Protestant hymns.
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