Don’t miss this selection of the greatest a cappella pieces performed at the St-Benoît-du-Lac Abbey. This concert will highlight the intense cultural vitality of the Italian Renaissance, and will include, as pièce de résistance, Palestrina’s rarely performed Missa Laudate Dominum.
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