Passionately Unconventional
Madrigals and Motets by Nuns of Milan, Bologna and Venice.

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The Female Mozart

The Heart and Soul of Barbara Strozzi
Explors every facet of this highly-educated and complex woman, a singer/composer who had free concourse in the world of artists, men of letters and the cloth, plying her trade in a time when most women stayed home.

La Donna / La Dame
Music of Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Raffaella Aeotti. From Hildegard on precious virginity, to a 15th century Austria with a motet by Princess Margaret, to motets on the love of Jesus from the Italian seicento by Suors Rafaella Aleotti, Sulpitia Cesis, and Margarita Cozzolani.

Dialogues-
Opera in the Convent

Isabella Leonarda & BarbaraStrozzi-
Two maestras of virtuosic writing for voice and violin contrasted with
Pergolesi's great "Stabat Mater" and some unheard villancicos from the
Peruvian Baroque. $20.

Sulpitia Cesis and Her Consuors-Explore with us the motet in all its forms, as the Italian seicento heard it, with motets by Cesis and others. Includes pieces by Hildegard von Bingen and contemporary composer Hilary Tann’s luminous piece for two voices, “The Moor,” based on the poetry and hymns of her Welsh heritage. $20.

Benefit Concert for the 2004 Tsunami Victims-
Cappella Clausura joined several other choral groups in the Boston area on one unforgettably cold night in January 2005 and raised over $10,000 for Oxfam's Tsunami relief effort.

The Complete Vespers of Cozzolani- Cozzolani's luminous setting of the psalms and canticles for Christmas Eve Vespers, together with Emma Lou Diemer's jaunty setting of five poems by Emily Dickinson - another "cloistered" woman.

Genius Will Out-A concert of newly discovered music written by women including the Vespers of Chiara Margarita Cozzolani and chants of Hildegard von Bingen and Kassia.