Auditions
We will be holding auditions for our 2010-2011 season in early September, 2010.
We are looking for all voice parts for our 2010-2011 season. Auditions will be held on Wed. September 1 and September 8. If you would like to arrange an audition time, please email us. Please include your voice part in your email. You are not required to prepare a piece for the audition, but you will be asked to sight read.
Rehearsals are held Wednesday evenings in the Harvard Square area of Cambridge near the Red Line. Auditions are on Wednesday evenings at Harvard Epworth Church in Harvard Square.
Listen to Musica Sacra
Listen to a short excerpt of Musica Sacra performing George Frideric Handel's Israel in Egypt accompanied by the Orchestra of Emmanuel Music, recorded live November 8, 2003.
We are looking for a few good singers!
Musica Sacra has sung in Cambridge and Boston for the past 50 years, 30 of them under the direction of conductor Mary Beekman, who is known in the Boston area for her inspired programming. We sing a diverse selection of both sacred and secular music, ranging from the 15c Flemish to the newly-composed, with everything in between. We work to adapt our sound to the spirit of each piece being sung and are looking for singers who are able to do the same. The music Mary selects can be challenging; the group often sings accappella works with adventurous voicings and harmonies, and always in the original languages of the compositions. We perform in mixed formation, and occasionally numerous divisi require a singer to be alone or with one other on a part. The result is a sound that is distinctive (recently called “jaw-droppingly good“ in the Boston Musical Intelligencer), with programs that are extremely rewarding for our singers and audiences alike!
We typically perform four concerts per year. Highlights of the 2010-2011 season include the Rutter Requiem, a holiday concert of English Christmas music, Flemish Renaissance music, and a concert comprised of dual settings of selected texts drawn from over 500 years of choral repertory. This year’s full concert schedule can be found on the Season Calendar page above. Rehearsals are held on Wednesday evenings from 7-10pm at Harvard-Epworth Church near Harvard Square. Concerts are performed at First Church in Harvard Square.
All auditions will take place at the Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church, 1555 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge (near the Harvard Law School and Cambridge Common). If you would like to arrange an audition time, please email us. Please include your voice part in your email.
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