The Concord Ensemble
La máscara del amor:
Spanish Secular Music during the Golden Age
- Time: 7:00 p.m., Sunday, May 25
- Location: Unitarian Universalist Church
- Tickets $15 General Admission, $10 Students/Seniors
- Concord Ensemble website
The period in Spanish history commonly known as the Golden Age boasts the highest and most important cultural achievements of the country's history, and includes the crowning achievement of Cervantes' literary masterpiece Don Quijote, and Garcilaso de la Vega's poetry. While the musical sphere of the time was heavily dominated by the composition of devotional music, an independent movement arose to contrast the somber and austere quality of church music with the sentimental and rhythmically animated works of Juan Vásquez and Francisco Guerrero. Tonight's program looks at the many facets of love and features prominently the music of these two masters
