Mysteries of the Rosary

Music and Art in Concert
June 12, 2005 7:00 p.m.

FLC Choir Concert
Sunday, June 12
7:00 p.m.

On Sunday, June 12 at 7:00 p.m., First Lutheran Church of Palo Alto offers an evening of choral and instrumental music about Mary, Mother of God, ranging from the Early Renaissance to the Baroque. The program follows Mary throughout the major episodes of her life, as related in the Bible, and consigned in four of the Mysteries of the Rosary: the Annunciation, the Visitation, the Assumption, and the Coronation.

The choir, under the direction of Jacques Desjardins, will perform Marian antiphons by Dufay, Des Prés, De La Rue, Byrd, di Lasso, and Victoria. Baroque composer Heinrich Biber (1644-1704) wrote a complete set of 15 Rosary sonatas for the violin, and distinguished violinist Cynthia Miller Freivogel will perform the four sonatas inspired by the Marian mysteries.

Paintings by Marguerite Fletcher on the Rosary Mysteries will be exhibited in the sanctuary, which will open at 6:30 p.m. The concert is at 7:00 pm, with a pre-concert talk on the many unusual violin tunings used by Biber for his sonatas.

Suggested donation $10 general/$8 students and seniors.