Mostly Motets offered a combination performance and sing-along at 1:30 p.m. on June 8, 2008 at First Congregational Church of Berkeley. The event was offered in conjunction with the 2008 Berkeley Festival and Exhibition, a week-long early music festival co-sponsored by the San Francisco Early Music Society. Audience members were invited to listen, to sing, or to do some of both. Sheet music was provided.
We sang unaccompanied, sacred music mostly from the Renaissance and Middle Ages. Since that music is less familiar to most people than what is sung in more typical sing-alongs (e.g. the Messiah), the format was a bit different. For each piece, Mostly Motets first performed the piece with the audience listening (and in some cases reading through the sheet music). Immediately after that the audience was invited to sing the same piece together with Mostly Motets.
Music selections ranged from relatively familiar and easy to more unusual and challenging and included the following:
The event was wheelchair accessible. This is the flyer for the event.
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