The following page lists all of the information for the Lyric Consort 2011-2012 Season.  Self-Destruction in the 16th Century Italian Madrigal Saturday Evening November 19 - 2011, 8:00 pm General Admission: $10.00 / All Students Free with Current ID Images of death, both real and metaphorical, dominate the Italian madrigals of the late Renaissance. At the same time, composers' relentless thirst for emotional expression push them ever toward (and eventually) over the brink; destroying the very genre they so admired and launching the first age of opera. Order Tickets Sacred & Secular Images of Winter Saturday Evening December 17 - 2011, 8:00 pm General Admission: $10.00 / All Students Free with Current ID Francis Poulenc's Un Soir de Neige, composed over Christmas 1944 in occupied France, reflects both the peace and the bleak solitude of winter. Our program of sacred and secular music considers how the darkness, cold, quietude and lethargy of the season provide beautiful and potent symbols to ponder the rebirth of world and spirit. Order Tickets Music Amid the 16th & 17th century Wars of Religion Sunday Afternoon March 4 - 2012, 3:00 pm General Admission: $10.00 / All Students Free with Current ID In England, Tallis's Waltham abbey is dissolved and Byrd composes his masses for secret liturgies. In Amsterdam, Sweelinck begins his musical life at the Catholic Oude Kirk but ends it the employ of Protestant magistrates. In France, Claude Goudimel is murdered in the St. Bartholomew's Massacre. We survey great music born of crisis. Order Tickets Musical Intersections of the Earthly & Spiritual Saturday Evening May 19 - 2012, 8:00 pm General Admission: $10.00 / All Students Free with Current ID Palestrina publically apologizes for his youthful madrigals, yet sets texts from the Old Testament Song of Songs. Renaissance worship services praise God with music based on bawdy love songs. Animals offer prayer from Noah's Ark and teach theology from the pages of Medieval bestiaries. Sacred or Secular? Our season concludes with a varied program of music that defies such black/white definition. Order Tickets