One of the worst-kept secrets of Elizabethan England was the illegitimate Catholic faith of the Chapel Royal composer, William Byrd. Under Protestant rule, Byrd was almost literally playing with fire when he secretly composed and performed explicitly Catholic music—in his later years, renegade Catholics were regularly burned alive or executed in other gruesome ways. This ReRenaissance program entitled “A Secret Christmas” imagines this group of hidden Catholic companions celebrating Advent and Christmas in secret and in danger at Ingatestone Hall in Essex.
The concert is free, but there will be a collection.

Website
rerenaissance.ch/events/30-11-25/byrd-and-the-baron/

Where
Historisches Museum Basel - Barfüsserkirche
Barfüsserplatz 7
4051 Basel

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