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December 17, 2025 (Wednesday)

7:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Renaissance Christmas Open Sing. Before The Messiah there was "The Boar's Head Carol!" Come join Convivium Musicum for a festive Renaissance Christmas Community Sing - enjoy singing favorite motets of the season, such as Victoria's "O Magnum Mysterium," Sweelinck's "Hodie Christus Natus Est," and works by Lassus, Byrd, and more, plus favorite carols of the period. We will sing for about an hour, then enjoy some festive goodies. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. All Saints Parish, 1773 Beacon Street, Brookline MA 02445 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

November 23, 2025 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Mysteries and Deceit: Misattributed Masterpieces. Repertoire that has been credited, either through accident or deception, to the wrong composer. The centerpiece will be Bauldeweyn’s Missa da Pacem, formerly attributed to Josquin; and we will share other works misattributed to Obrecht, Isaac, Victoria, and Palestrina. For more information, call 617-720-3445 or email mdettelb@gmail.com. First Unitarian Church, 90 Main Street, Worcester MA 01608 ⓘ 🔗

November 22, 2025 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Mysteries and Deceit: Misattributed Masterpieces. Repertoire that has been credited, either through accident or deception, to the wrong composer. The centerpiece will be Bauldeweyn’s Missa da Pacem, formerly attributed to Josquin; and we will share other works misattributed to Obrecht, Isaac, Victoria, and Palestrina. For more information, call 617-720-3445 or email mdettelb@gmail.com. All Saints Parish, 1773 Beacon Street, Brookline MA 02445 ⓘ 🔗

August 20, 2025 (Wednesday)

7:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Summer Sing. This free summer sing features repertoire for our November concerts, all works that have been misattributed (composers include Heinrich Isaac and Ludwig Senfl). This is a laid-back sight-reading event. There will be snacks! We'll have music, but it is a good idea to bring a 3-ring binder. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. All Saints Parish, 1773 Beacon Street, Brookline MA 02445 ⓘ 🔗

August 7, 2024 (Wednesday)

7:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Summer Sing. Join members of Convivium Musicum for an evening of Singing and merry making. Repertoire will include works by Senfl, Isaac, and Lassus, with gems such as Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen and Virgo Prudentissima. Free admission, refreshments will be served. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email ruthiegm@gmail.com. All Saints Parish, 1773 Beacon Street, Brookline MA 02445 ⓘ 🔗

June 2, 2024 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Draw On Sweet Night. Music based on the thoughts and emotions that arise between dusk and dawn, including works by Wilbye, Lasso, Aleotti, Palestrina, and others. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1 Homer St, Newton Centre MA 02459 ⓘ 🔗

June 1, 2024 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Draw On Sweet Night. Music based on the thoughts and emotions that arise between dusk and dawn, including works by Wilbye, Lasso, Aleotti, Palestrina, and others. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. First Unitarian of Worcester, 90 Main Street, Worcester MA 01608 ⓘ 🔗

March 2, 2024 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music for a French Cathedral. Works by Ockeghem and Josquin, including parts of Ockeghem’s Missa pro defunctis and Josquin’s Déploration sur la mort d’Ockeghem. We will also celebrate the 550th anniversary of the passing of Dufay. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ 🔗

February 25, 2024 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music for a French Cathedral. Works by Ockeghem and Josquin, including parts of Ockeghem’s Missa pro defunctis and Josquin’s Déploration sur la mort d’Ockeghem. We will also celebrate the 550th anniversary of the passing of Dufay. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. Christ Church Andover, 33 Central Street, Andover MA 01810 ⓘ 🔗

December 3, 2023 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: O Quam Gloriosum: Music of the Late Spanish Renaissance. Works by Victoria, Morales, and Guerrero. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. First Unitarian of Worcester, 90 Main Street, Worcester MA 01608 ⓘ 🔗

November 19, 2023 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: O Quam Gloriosum: Music of the Late Spanish Renaissance. Works by Victoria, Morales, and Guerrero. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. All Saints Parish, 1773 Beacon Street, Brookline MA 02445 ⓘ 🔗

November 21, 2021 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Cornucopia. A program on themes of growth, plenty, and variety: in texts, musical techniques, and composers. Works by Byrd, Aleotti, Senfl, Rossi, Schütz, Lusitano, Sweelinck, and more. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. United Parish In Brookline, 210 Harvard Street, Brookline MA 02446 ⓘ 🔗

November 20, 2021 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Cornucopia. A program on themes of growth, plenty, and variety: in texts, musical techniques, and composers. Works by Byrd, Aleotti, Senfl, Rossi, Schütz, Lusitano, Sweelinck, and more. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ 🔗

June 5, 2021 (Saturday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Ars Imperfecta: Pushing the Bounds of Polyphony. A concert of both famous exemplars of the “ars perfecta” — Josquin and Palestrina chief among them — alongside others whose efforts sometimes seem to lie outside the mainstream, including Orlando di Lasso, Giaches de Wert, Michelangelo Rossi, and more. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. Christ Church Andover, 33 Central Street, Andover MA 01810 ⓘ 🔗

May 21, 2021 (Friday)

8:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Ars Imperfecta: Pushing the Bounds of Polyphony. A concert of both famous exemplars of the “ars perfecta” — Josquin and Palestrina chief among them — alongside others whose efforts sometimes seem to lie outside the mainstream, including Orlando di Lasso, Giaches de Wert, Michelangelo Rossi, and more. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. Trinity Lutheran Church, 73 Lancaster Street, Worcester MA 01609 ⓘ 🔗

November 24, 2019 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Songs of Salamone. Choral music of Salamone Rossi (c. 1570 – 1630), including his settings of Jewish liturgical music and selections from his madrigals, as well as psalm settings by Sweelinck and Mendelssohn. Tickets: $25 regular, $15 Senior/student/limited income. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. United Parish In Brookline, 210 Harvard Street, Brookline MA 02446 ⓘ 🔗

November 23, 2019 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Songs of Salamone. Choral music of Salamone Rossi (c. 1570 – 1630), including his settings of Jewish liturgical music and selections from his madrigals, as well as psalm settings by Sweelinck and Mendelssohn. Tickets: $25 regular, $15 Senior/student/limited income. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ 🔗

June 2, 2019 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Musica Nova: Music in Venice from Willaert to Monteverdi. Join us as we explore the history of music-making in Venice from 1527, when Adrian Willaert was appointed as maestro di cappella at the Basilica of St. Mark in Venice, to the last gasps of the stile antico. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. United Parish In Brookline, 210 Harvard Street, Brookline MA 02446 ⓘ 🔗

June 1, 2019 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Musica Nova: Music in Venice from Willaert to Monteverdi. Join us as we explore the history of music-making in Venice from 1527, when Adrian Willaert was appointed as maestro di cappella at the Basilica of St. Mark in Venice, to the last gasps of the stile antico. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. Trinity Lutheran Church, 73 Lancaster Street, Worcester MA 01609 ⓘ 🔗

May 18, 2018 (Friday)

8:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Reprise. A revival of repertoire from our 2017-18 season. Michael Barrett, conductor. Tickets: $25 general, $15 student/senior/limited income. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. Trinity Lutheran Church, 73 Lancaster Street, Worcester MA 01609 ⓘ 🔗

April 29, 2018 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Cori Spezzati: a collaborative concert with Montreal’s Ensemble Bellechose. A revival of repertoire from our 2017-18 season. Michael Barrett, conductor. Tickets: $25 general, $15 student/senior/limited income. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. United Parish in Brookline, 210 Harvard Street, Brookline MA 02446 ⓘ 🔗

June 17, 2017 (Saturday)

12:00 AM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Reformation: Musical Traditions in Protestant Europe (marking the 500th anniversary of Luther’s 95 Theses). For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. Old West Church, 131 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA ⓘ

May 21, 2017 (Sunday)

7:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Reformation: Musical Traditions in Protestant Europe (marking the 500th anniversary of Luther’s 95 Theses). For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. United Parish in Brookline, 210 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA ⓘ

May 20, 2017 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Reformation: Musical Traditions in Protestant Europe (marking the 500th anniversary of Luther’s 95 Theses). For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. Trinity Lutheran Church, 73 Lancaster Street, Worcester, MA ⓘ

May 13, 2017 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Reformation: Musical Traditions in Protestant Europe (marking the 500th anniversary of Luther’s 95 Theses). For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA ⓘ

February 5, 2017 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: The Josquin Generation: Isaac, Obrecht, la Rue, Agricola, and more. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. First Parish Church, 24 Central Street, Berlin, MA ⓘ

January 29, 2017 (Sunday)

7:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: The Josquin Generation: Isaac, Obrecht, la Rue, Agricola, and more. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Brookline, MA ⓘ

January 22, 2017 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: The Josquin Generation: Isaac, Obrecht, la Rue, Agricola, and more. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. Christ Church Andover, 33 Central Street, Andover, MA ⓘ

January 21, 2017 (Saturday)

May 22, 2016 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music from The Regensburg Manuscript. Works by Striggo, Monte, Utendal, and others. With the 7 Hills Renaissance Wind Band. The Regensburg Manuscript, a collection of six partbooks, is a significant collection of late-16th-century polyphony. Although the manuscript contains vocal music, it was copied out for an ensemble of wind players, and is unique among sources of the period in containing specific instrumentation for around half of its 120 compositions. Free admission for children under 18. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. United Parish in Brookline, 210 Harvard Street, Brookline MA 02446 ⓘ

May 21, 2016 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music from The Regensburg Manuscript. Works by Striggo, Monte, Utendal, and others. With the 7 Hills Renaissance Wind Band. The Regensburg Manuscript, a collection of six partbooks, is a significant collection of late-16th-century polyphony. Although the manuscript contains vocal music, it was copied out for an ensemble of wind players, and is unique among sources of the period in containing specific instrumentation for around half of its 120 compositions. Free admission for children under 18. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ

May 14, 2016 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music from The Regensburg Manuscript. Works by Striggo, Monte, Utendal, and others. With the 7 Hills Renaissance Wind Band. The Regensburg Manuscript, a collection of six partbooks, is a significant collection of late-16th-century polyphony. Although the manuscript contains vocal music, it was copied out for an ensemble of wind players, and is unique among sources of the period in containing specific instrumentation for around half of its 120 compositions. Free admission for children under 18. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. Trinity Lutheran Church, 73 Lancaster Street, Worcester MA 01609 ⓘ

February 14, 2016 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music Poetica: Rhetoric in Renaissance Music. Works by Lassus, Schein, Padilla, and more. Free admission for children under 18. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. First Parish Church, 24 Central Street, Berlin MA 01503 ⓘ

February 7, 2016 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music Poetica: Rhetoric in Renaissance Music. Works by Lassus, Schein, Padilla, and more. Free admission for children under 18. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 15 St. Paul Street, Brookline MA 02446 ⓘ

January 31, 2016 (Sunday)

5:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music Poetica: Rhetoric in Renaissance Music. Works by Lassus, Schein, Padilla, and more. Free admission for children under 18. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. Christ Church Andover, 33 Central Street, Andover MA 01810 ⓘ

January 30, 2016 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music Poetica: Rhetoric in Renaissance Music. Works by Lassus, Schein, Padilla, and more. Free admission for children under 18. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. Cambridge Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ

January 24, 2016 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Giuseppe Verdi: Otello. With Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, Federico Cortese, conductor. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138

January 31, 2015 (Saturday)

7:30 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music from the Dow Partbooks. The Dow Partbooks comprise one of the most visually stunning and important collections of English music from the Tudor period. The collection includes some of the great English works of the time: Ne irascaris of William Byrd; O sacrum convivium of Thomas Tallis; Ave Maria of William Parsons; and Robert White's Lamentations of Jeremiah. Earlier this season, Convivium Musicum had the special opportunity to perform some of these pieces as part of a day-long workshop with the Viola da Gamba Society and in celebration of Powers Music School's 50th anniversary. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. First Parish Church, 15 Central Street, Berlin MA 01503 ⓘ

January 25, 2015 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music from the Dow Partbooks. The Dow Partbooks comprise one of the most visually stunning and important collections of English music from the Tudor period. The collection includes some of the great English works of the time: Ne irascaris of William Byrd; O sacrum convivium of Thomas Tallis; Ave Maria of William Parsons; and Robert White's Lamentations of Jeremiah. Earlier this season, Convivium Musicum had the special opportunity to perform some of these pieces as part of a day-long workshop with the Viola da Gamba Society and in celebration of Powers Music School's 50th anniversary. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 15 St. Paul's Street, Brookline MA 02446 ⓘ

January 24, 2015 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music from the Dow Partbooks. The Dow Partbooks comprise one of the most visually stunning and important collections of English music from the Tudor period. The collection includes some of the great English works of the time: Ne irascaris of William Byrd; O sacrum convivium of Thomas Tallis; Ave Maria of William Parsons; and Robert White's Lamentations of Jeremiah. Earlier this season, Convivium Musicum had the special opportunity to perform some of these pieces as part of a day-long workshop with the Viola da Gamba Society and in celebration of Powers Music School's 50th anniversary. For more information, call 617-773-6913 or email info@convivium.org. Cambridge Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ

June 15, 2013 (Saturday)

12:00 AM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music of the Spheres: Music and Mathematics in the Renaissance. Church of St. John the Evangelist, Boston MA

May 19, 2013 (Sunday)

7:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music of the Spheres: Music and Mathematics in the Renaissance. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Brookline MA

May 18, 2013 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music of the Spheres: Music and Mathematics in the Renaissance. Harvard-Epworth Church, Cambridge MA

May 11, 2013 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Music of the Spheres: Music and Mathematics in the Renaissance. Trinity Lutheran Church, Worcester MA

January 27, 2013 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Brahms and Early Music. Join Convivium as we rummage through the extensive musical closet of Johannes Brahms, dusting off the Renaissance and early Baroque polyphony that inspired his own most inventive and artful choral utterances. Brahms’ music library reflected the composer's almost unprecedented respect for artists of the past. One is not surprised to find Schubert, Mozart, Haydn and Bach among his collection, but there was also a healthy collection of Lotti, Lassus, Praetorius, Eccard, and other composers that were virtually unknown at the time. Brahms was also responsible for bringing many of these composers to the Viennese public, helping to usher in more generally the concept of the "canon" in Western musical life. Convivium presents a sample of the works Brahms held so dear and that he chose to share with his adopted Vienna. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. United Parish in Brookline, 210 Harvard Street, Brookline MA

January 26, 2013 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Brahms and Early Music. Join Convivium as we rummage through the extensive musical closet of Johannes Brahms, dusting off the Renaissance and early Baroque polyphony that inspired his own most inventive and artful choral utterances. Brahms’ music library reflected the composer's almost unprecedented respect for artists of the past. One is not surprised to find Schubert, Mozart, Haydn and Bach among his collection, but there was also a healthy collection of Lotti, Lassus, Praetorius, Eccard, and other composers that were virtually unknown at the time. Brahms was also responsible for bringing many of these composers to the Viennese public, helping to usher in more generally the concept of the "canon" in Western musical life. Convivium presents a sample of the works Brahms held so dear and that he chose to share with his adopted Vienna. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. Cambridge Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge MA

January 20, 2013 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Convivium Musicum [MA]: Brahms and Early Music. Join Convivium as we rummage through the extensive musical closet of Johannes Brahms, dusting off the Renaissance and early Baroque polyphony that inspired his own most inventive and artful choral utterances. Brahms’ music library reflected the composer's almost unprecedented respect for artists of the past. One is not surprised to find Schubert, Mozart, Haydn and Bach among his collection, but there was also a healthy collection of Lotti, Lassus, Praetorius, Eccard, and other composers that were virtually unknown at the time. Brahms was also responsible for bringing many of these composers to the Viennese public, helping to usher in more generally the concept of the "canon" in Western musical life. Convivium presents a sample of the works Brahms held so dear and that he chose to share with his adopted Vienna. For more information, call 617-320-7445 or email info@convivium.org. Christ Church Andover, 33 Central Street, Andover MA

December 13, 2012 (Thursday)

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Arlington-Belmont Chorale / Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra [MA]: Holiday Concert. Margaret Bonds: The Ballad of the Brown King; George Frederick Handel: Concerto a Due Cori No. 2; Charles Ives: Three Places in New England. [12/5/2025] Arlington MA ⓘ
Brattleboro Women's Chorus [VT]: Circle Round, Our 30th Anniversary Fall Concerts. Joan Szymko: “Here”; “Nothing Short of Grace”; Jonathan Larson: “Seasons of Love” from Rent; Linda Hirschhorn: “Ilu Finu”; “Circle Chant”; Pete Sutherland (Anna Patton, arr.): “Out to Breakfast”; original works by Becky Graber and Anna Patton; other songs that explore the power of living in community. Cathy Martin, piano; Michelle Liechti, violin; Becky Graber and Anna Patton, directors. Tickets, in-person and live stream: $15-$30, sliding scale. Sunday’s show will be live streamed and recorded. [11/22/2025] Brattleboro VT ⓘ
Musica Sacra [MA]: ¡Feliz Navidad! Choral Music for Christmas. An array of motets and villancicos from past and present, including Conrad Susa’s Carols and Lullabies: Christmas in the Southwest for marimba, guitar and harp; plus villancicos, carols, and motets from the New World and the Old. In light of recent targeting of our immigrant communities by the federal government, Musica Sacra is donating a portion of the ticket proceeds to the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA). [12/13/2025] Cambridge MA ⓘ
The Tallis Scholars [MA]: Mother & Child: English music for the Virgin Mary. Music from the English repertoire about the Virgin Mary, including Thomas Tallis’s Missa Puer natus, Benjamin Britten’s A Hymn to the Virgin, and a newly commissioned piece by Matthew Martin. [12/5/2025] Cambridge MA ⓘ

Other Choral Calendars—Not Choral Arts New England

CT: Association of Connecticut Choruses (ACC)
MA (Boston): Greater Boston Choral Consortium (GBCC)
MA (central): Central Massachusetts Choral Consortium
NH: The Choral Arts Foundation of the Upper Valley
Greater Boston: Boston Singers' Resource Vocal Music Calendar

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