Music to include:
Des Prez - Missa Pange Lingua
Palestrina - Easter Anthems:
Deus, Deus Meus
Angelus Domini
Benedicite gentes
Terra tremuit

Singers:
Gerry Craft, Stan DeWitt, Ashley Hoffman, Tim Morton, Hilary Fraser-Thomson, Rob Shacklett, Jay Tuttle & Audrey Wiechman

The Missa Pange Lingua is a musical setting of the Ordinary of the Mass by Franco-Flemish composer Josquin des Prez, probably dating from around 1515, near the end of his life. Most likely his last mass, it is an extended fantasia on the Pange Lingua hymn, and is one of Josquin's most famous mass settings.

Pange Lingua Gloriosi Corporis Mysterium is a hymn written by St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) for the Feast of Corpus Christi (now called the Solemnity of the Holy Body and Blood of Christ). It is also sung on Holy Thursday, during the procession from the church to the place where the Blessed Sacrament is kept until Good Friday. The last two stanzas, called separately Tantum Ergo, are sung at Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. The hymn expresses the doctrine of transubstantiation, in which, according to the Roman Catholic faith, the bread and wine are changed into the Body and Blood of Christ.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594) was an Italian Renaissance composer and the most well-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. Palestrina became famous through his output of sacred music. He had an enormous influence on the development of Roman Catholic church music, and his work has often been seen as the culmination of Renaissance polyphony. It is only recently, with the discovery and publication of a great deal of hitherto unknown or forgotten music by various Renaissance composers, that we have had the means to properly assess Palestrina in historical context.
These Easter Anthems are all quite short (each about 2-3 minutes in length). We would like to take the opportunity to sing more than one at a time, during the Mass Proper, at Introit and Offertory.