A Christmas vigil with Blue Heron
Leonardo's Gabriel from the Annunciation in the Uffizi.As I mentioned in an earlier post, conductor Scott Metcalfe had a busy holiday season - in one weekend he led both the Handel and Haydn Society and his own Blue Heron choir in Christmas concerts that not only were noteworthy for remarkable musical quality but were designed with a striking sense of spiritual ceremony.The Blue Heron performances, set in C…