Oriana Consort Presents – There is Sweet Music: Choral expressions of comfort and connection

The Oriana Consort is a small chorale based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

“There is Sweet Music”, a stanza from Tennyson’s lyric poem “The Lotos-Eaters”, extols the power of music to engage, calm, and inspire — perhaps a worthy aspiration as we face the division and uncertainty of our current times. We explore this theme through a cappella choral works by Claude Debussy, Ēriks Ešenvalds, Daniel Gawthrop, Robert Hobby, Alice Parker, Francis Poulenc, Rosephanye Powell, Salamone Rossi, Camille Saint-Saens, Heinrich Schütz, Williametta Spencer, Charles Villiers Stanford, Randall Thompson, and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

The group’s repertoire is eclectic, ranging from the Renaissance through the twenty-first century.   Music of the Baroque era, accompanied by instrumentalists from greater Boston’s extraordinary early music community, forms a significant part of each program.

The Consort presents winter and spring programs each season in Cambridge, Boston’s Back Bay, and various Boston suburbs.