Explorations
The Rose Ensemble
Friday, November 11, 2011 - 7:30 pm
Primary Sponsor: Margaret Evans
Associate Sponsors:
Milt & Pix Morgan, Tim & Teri O’Rourke,
,
Anita & Russy Sumariwalla/Anonymous
Music from the Land of Three Faiths:
Ancient Christianity,
Judaism and Islam
Voices plus a fascinating array of instruments from the Arab-Andalusian, Sephardic, Spanish, Hebrew and Galician traditions
Founded in 1996 and based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, The Rose Ensemble reawakens the ancient with vocal music that strives to stir the emotions, challenge the mind and lift the spirit. Each performance illuminates centuries of rarely-heard repertoire.
“To sit through an entire concert of sacred music from this period, especially
when it is incomparably performed, is to be wrapped in an embrace . .
. To hear the beauty of these singleline melodies is to experience an
otherworldly beauty that reaches back nearly a thousand years.”
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