The B16 Schola is preparing its first concert: 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 20, 2010, at Holy Ghost Church near downtown Knoxville.

We hope to see you there! (For details, e-mail me.)

Choral sets will include works from Byrd to Bruckner, with a fairly heavy emphasis on the Renaissance period. Our friend Charles Walden will perform two organ sets in between.

There’s no charge for the concert, but we will take up a free-will offering. Donations will benefit Holy Ghost, which has been so welcoming to us, and the schola’s music budget.

Here are specifics for the choral music (subject to slight changes):

Set 1

• Oremus pro pontifice (chant)
• Hassler: Dixit Maria
• Bruckner: Locus Iste
• Jesu dulcis memoria (chant)
• Monteverdi: O bone Jesu
• Ubi caritas (chant)

Set 2 (all English)

• Purcell: Thou knowest, Lord
• Morley: Magnificat
• Byrd: Lord, hear my prayer instantly
• Farrant: Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake
• Stainer: God so loved the world

Set 3

• Crux fidelis (chant, performed in English)
• Mozart: Ave verum corpus
• Palestrina: Jesu rex admirabilis
• Salve regina (chant)
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• Vivaldi: In memoria aeterna, from Beatus Vir