Medieval and Renaissance Music in Chicago, May 9-10

The Chicago-based professional early music ensemble, Schola Antiqua, presents two concerts honoring the apocryphal mother of the Virgin Mary, St. Anne. The program is presented in connection with the release of the book St. Anne in Renaissance Music: Devotion and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2014) by the ensemble’s artistic director, Michael Alan Anderson.

“A Mother’s Mother: Music for St. Anne” Schola Antiqua of Chicago Michael Alan Anderson, Artistic Director May 9, 2014, 7:30pm, Bond Chapel, University of Chicago (northeast of Ellis Ave./59th St.) May 10, 2014, 8:00pm, St. Clement Church, 642 W. Deming Pl.

Schola Antiqua is the 2012 winner of the Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society for outstanding contributions to historical performance practice. The ensemble is artist in residence at the Lumen Christi Institute.