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The Lyric Consort vocal ensemble will present ``A Renaissance Christmas''
on Saturday and Sunday in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Tracing the achievements
of ``the golden age of choral music'' through texts of the Advent, Christmas
and Epiphany seasons, the program will offer a chronological compendium of the
era's diverse sounds and styles, and include music of the period masters
Palestrina, Byrd, Sweelinck, Tallis and Cornysh. The concert will be performed
8 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 11 in St. Luke's Episcopal Church of Scranton and
again at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 12 at St. Stephen~'s Episcopal Church of
Wilkes-Barre. This program is the second installment in the Consort's
1999-2000 Concert Series centered on the theme of ``Alpha and Omega:
Retrospectives on the Music that Opened and Closed the Millennium,'' as well
as the third performance in Marking The Millennium~s ``Musk Through The
Millennium'' Series. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 The latter, a series of seven Scranton area concerts across 1999-2000
tracing the development of western music from medieval times to the present
day, is a joint project of The Lyric Consort, The Choral Society of Northeast
Pennsylvania, The Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, The Robert Dale
Chorale and Scranton Community Concerts. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The series continues with the Choral Society's Dec. 17 premiere of a new
choral cantata commissioned from regional composer Joseph Knaus ``And The
Angel Said,'' to be presented at 7:30 p.m. at the Church of St. Mary of the
Assumption. Since its formation in 1993, The Lyric Consort's performance of
masterworks from the Renaissance and 20th century have won consistent acclaim.
The ensemble is heard regularly throughout the year on WVIA-FM's ``Music From
St. Stephen's.'' &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 WHAT: ``A Renaissance Christmas,'' sacred music of 16th- and 17th-century
Europe, with The Lyric Consort. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 WHEN/WHERE: Saturday, 8 p.m. at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Scranton;
Sunday, 3 p.m. at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Wilkes-Barre. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 TICKETS: $10, $7 students and seniors. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 INFO: 752-3953. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

`renaissance Christmas' Scheduled Lyric Consort Production Traces The Achievements Of ``the Golden Age Of Choral Music.''