Sunday, November 7, 2004 at 4:00 PM

English Cathedral

 - The cool, expressive counterpoint of William Byrd is a perfect foil for the deeply emotional music Herbert Howells composed after the death of his young son.  Also programmed: the premiere performance of a new work by New England composer Elaine Bearer.

     William Byrd    Mass for Four Voices
    Herbert Howells  Requiem (1935)
    Elaine Bearer  Moment

Saturday, December 19, 2004 at 4:00 PM

Gerald Finzi at Christmas

- Tenor Jonathan Mack joins PPM's full chorus & orchestra for the holidays in a celebration of the wonderful music of Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)

Dies Natalis, Op. 8
All This Night, Op. 33
Magnificat, Op. 36
In Terra Pax, Op. 39

Sunday, February 27, 2005 at 4:00 PM

Concord Ensemble

- This year's guest ensemble presents a program devoted to the works of Thomas Tallis, the mentor of Byrd, and Comoser of the Chapel Royal for four English monarchs.  PPM singers will join them in his amazing Spem in alium for forty voices.

Sunday, March 20, 2004 at 4:00 PM

Edward Low and PPM

- PPM's conductor emeritus has chosen the magnificent Passion cantata, Forsaken of Man, by American composer Leo Sowerby, for his homecoming concert.

Sunday, May 1, 2005 at 4:00 PM

WITH A HEY NONNY NO!

- Celebrate the lusy month of May with secular gems from five centuries of English choral music:

Edward Elgar and Gustav Holtz  Elizabethan madrigals
Benjamin Britten Hymn to St. Cecilia and Gloriana Dances
Ralph Vaughan Williams  Three Shakespeare Songs

All concerts are at the Neighborhood Church, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena, CA. at the times indicated above.

Admission $15; Seniors & Students $10

“A tune is more lasting than the voice of the birds.
A song is more lasting than the riches of the world.”

Padrale Colum (1881-?)

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