Program Notes

Looking East features mystical 13th century Byzantine chants, meditative Greek Orthodox liturgical music and spirited Ukrainian carols. Experience the contemplative 20th century Orthodox-inspired works by John Tavener and Arvo Pärt, Jacob Handl's shimmering Rorate Caeli and Pärt's majestic Seven Magnificant Antiphons.

We look forward to sharing this musical mosaic of magnificent and rarely performed music this Christmas season as CMS looks east.

  Saturday, December 7, 2002
8:00 pm
Lindsey Chapel at Emmanuel Church
15 Newbury Street
Boston, Massachusetts
 Tickets:
Director's Circle: $25
$20/$16 in advance
$12 Students/Seniors



Sunday, December 8, 2002
7:00pm
Pilgrim Congregational Church
55 Coolidge Avenue
Lexington, Massachusetts
 Tickets:
Director's Circle: $25
$16/$14 in advance
$12 Students/Seniors

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Music Program
Part 1
  • Ode for Christmas - Anonymous (13th Century)
  • Annunciation - John Tavener
  • Today the Virgin - John Tavener
  • Ikon of the Nativity - John Tavener
  • O, Do not Move - John Tavener
  • Pástiriye Vifleyémstii - Alexander Kastaksky (1856-1926)
  • Magnification of The Nativity - Peter S. Michaelides
  • Thy Nativity - Peter S. Michaelides
  • Chris is Born - Peter S. Michaelides
  • O Weisheit - Arvo Pärt
  • O Morgenstern - Arvo Pärt
  • O König aller Völker - Arvo Pärt
  • O Immanuel - Arvo Pärt

Part 2

  • Mirabile Mysterium - Jacob Handel (1550-1591)
  • Orietur Stella - Jacob Handel (1550-1591)
  • Rorate Caeli - Jacob Handel (1550-1591)
  • O Magnum Mysterium - Jacob Handel (1550-1591)
  • Joy is all Around Us! - Kirill Stetsenko (1882-1922)
  • Apolytikion of Christmas - Anonymous
  • First Ode of the Kanon - Anonymous
  • Kontakion - Peter S. Michaelides
  • Megalynarion for Epiphany - Tikey Zes
  • Exaposteilarion of Christmas - Anonymous
  • A fsklïknuli yangholï - Kirill Stetsenko (1882-1922)
  • Nébo i zémlia - Kirill Stetsenko (1882-1922)
  • Sláva v vishnih Bógu - Anatoly Liadov (1855-1914)