Rose Ensemble Concert: Voices of the Ancient Mediterranean: Christians, Jews and Muslims

As part of an artist residency at Carleton, the St Paul-based early music group The Rose Ensemble will present their program Voices of the Ancient Mediterranean: Christians, Jews, and Muslims at a free public concert in the Carleton College Chapel.

Centuries of dedication and folklore in the chapels, synagogues and courts of early Italy, Spain and Portugal produced music with rhythms that reverberated across the Mediterranean. In this program spanning four centuries of vocal and instrumental music, a diverse collection of Arab-Andalusian dances, Sephardic laments, Spanish villancicos, Hebrew chants and Galician spiritual cantigas come together in a fascinating exploration of language, culture, and faith from a time that is not so different from our own.

For more on the Rose Ensemble, see  their website at: http://www.roseensemble.org/