This season, LJRS presents

MUSIC FOR THE HOLIDAYS FROM OLD AND NEW ENGLAND

The La Jolla Renaissance Singers presents a program of seasonal choral music from Renaissance England and Colonial America, mostly dating from the 15th-18th centuries. The program explores the continuities and differences among the English medieval tradition, the High Renaissance polyphony of the Tudor era, and folk music as represented in English carols and in music from colonial and rural America.

• Once in Royal David’s City, Henry John Gauntlett (19th century English)
• Edi Beo Thu (13th century English)
• Hail the Blest Morn! (American traditional)
• Ye Nations All, On You I Call (American traditional)
• Sherburne, Nahum Tate (18th century American)
• Shepherd’s Carol, William Billings (18th century American)
• A Virgin Unspotted, William Billings (18th century American)
• Adam Lay Ybounden, Boris Ord (19th century English)
• Quam Pulchra Est, John Dunstable (15th century English)
• Candidi Facti Sunt, Thomas Tallis (16th century English)
• The Holly and the Ivy (English traditional)
• Nowell, nowell: the Boares Head (English medieval)
• The Roast Beef of Old England, Richard Leveridge (18th century English)
• The Boar’s Head Carol (English traditional)
• We Wish You a Merry Christmas (English traditional)