2009-2010
The Flawed Pearl:Music of the English and Italian Baroque Pieces range from rousing satire to deepest tragedy, including some of the catchiest tunes in the repertory!
Emily Nelson (soprano), Christopher LeCluyse (tenor), Miyo Aoki (recorder), Jonathan Oddie (harpsichord) and Polly Gibson (viola da gamba).
Friday, Sept. 11 at 8:00PM
Sunday, Sept. 13 at 5:00PM
St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral
231 East 100 South, Salt Lake City
The Siren and the Nightingale: French Medieval Meets Folk.
An iridescent panther with sweet breath. An enchanted maiden clothed in leaves and flowers. These creatures, born hundreds of years ago in the French imagination, are carried to us through the mists of time by haunting music. Hear the story of a lady rescued from peril, and another whose lover was killed in a joust. Come and tap your toe to an ancient tune and let your imagination dance in the autumn night!
Saturday, November 7, 8:00 PM and Sunday, November 8 , 5:00 PM at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral
Emily Nelson, soprano, Christopher LeCluyse, tenor, Shulamit Kleinerman, vielle, Bronwen Beecher, fiddle, Peter Maund and Nick Foster, percussion.
Our concert will trace American music from colonial beginnings all the way across the Rocky Mountains into our own Salt Lake Valley. This music contains the purest religion, the tenderest love and the most bloodcurdling violence that early music has to offer. Some of it is funny, too!
Saturday, February 5, 2010 8:00 PM Sunday, February 7, 2010 5:00 PM
St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral
231 East 100, Salt Lake City
Emily Nelson, soprano, Christopher LeCluyse, tenor, Catherine Coda, mezzo-soprano, Nelson LeDuc, baritone, Bronwen Beecher, fiddle, Nick Foster, guitar.
The Baroque was born amid the clamor of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. Believers seeking a more immediate experience of the divine poured their passion into music. Set amid the reflective season of Lent, this concert journeys into the dark night of the soul confronted with mortality and mystery. Selections include François Couperin’s haunting Leçons de ténèbres along with works by Buxtehude, Schütz, Legrenzi, and Rigatti.
Emily Nelson, soprano • Christopher LeCluyse, tenor • Rebecca Hample, soprano • Catherine Coda, soprano • Matthew Bryner, baritone
Lisa Chaufty, recorder • Vanessa Bridge, recorder • Jennifer Streeter, organ and harpsichord • Leslie Richards, viola da gamba
Friday, March 12,
2010 8:00 PMHoly Family Catholic
Church, South Ogden
Saturday, March
13, 2010 8:00 PM
Sunday, March 14,
2010 5:00 PM
St. Mark's Episcopal
Cathedral, Salt Lake City
2010-2011 What Fright'ning Noise is This? Friday, October 29 8:00PM Sunday, October 31 5:00PM St Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, Salt Lake City
All Hallows' Eve approaches. The veil between this world and the next is at its thinnest. You find yourself in a Gothic cathedral
by flickering candlelight. A ghostly figure appears before you
and begins to keen …. Purcell! Utopia’s second season gets off to a spine-tingling start with a program of Baroque music
celebrating the ghostly, the ghoulish, and the macabre. Pieces include Henry
Purcell’s “Bess of Bedlam” and music from The Indian Queen, Antonio Soler’s diabolical Sonata No. 15 in D minor, and Marin Marais’
musical presentation of a gallbladder operation.
Please join us for this celebration of spookiness, featuring
Emily Nelson, soprano, Christopher LeCluyse, tenor, Nelson LeDuc,
baritone,
Lisa Chaufty, recorder, Pam Jones, harpsichord, Christopher
Wootton, organ, Frances Bach, viola da gamba, and extra-special guest,
Vicki Boekman, who is flying to us (perhaps on a broomstick?) from
Seattle to play recorder.
Lily in Winter: A Medieval Christmas Friday, December 3, 8:00 PM St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, Salt Lake City Saturday, December 4, 7:00 PM Holy Family Catholic Church, South Ogden Sunday, December 5, 7:00 PM St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, Salt Lake City Find refuge from the ugly sweaters and animatronic snowmen of the season in the passion and depth of medieval music. Our program spans over five centuries, varying in texture from Gregorian chant to rollicking English carols. Gothic harp, medieval fiddle, and percussion join Utopia's voices to create a soundscape of beautiful intensity. Readings from medieval mystics including Julian of Norwich and Meister Eckhart frame these festive and moving works.
Emily Nelson, soprano; Valerie Hart-Nelson, contralto; Christopher LeCluyse, tenor; Therese Honey, Gothic harp; Shulamit Kleinerman, vielle; Nick Foster, percussion
Flowers of Edinburgh: Five Centuries
of Scottish Music Friday, February 25, 8:00 PM, and Sunday, February 27, 5:00
PM, at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, 231 E 100 S, Salt Lake City, Utah. The windswept moors and crags of
Scotland have long yielded some of the tenderest flowers of the British musical
tradition. From spritely airs to mournful laments, Scottish music charms
listeners with its tuneful melodies. This program is unusual in its scope as we
stride the centuries from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. Sources
range from thirteenth-century Orkney to Renaissance lute song collections,
baroque settings of Scottish tunes by Francesco Geminiani, and the
nineteenth-century Scots Musical Museum, compiled by Scotland’s favorite son,
Robert Burns. Pieces include toe-tapping reels and elegant trio sonatas,
sentimental love songs, chilling murder ballads, and even a sixteenth-century sales
pitch by itinerant plow salesmen.
Utopia co‐founders Emily Nelson (soprano) and Christopher LeCluyse
(tenor) are joined by local musicians Lisa Chaufty (recorder), Pam Jones
(harpsichord), Frances von Seggern Bach (viola da gamba and cello), Cynthia
Douglass (Celtic harp) and Michael Lucarelli (guitar).
That's What She Said: Saucy Songs of the 17th Century Friday, May 27, 8:00 PM Saturday, May 28, 8:00 PM Salt Lake Recital Hall We Utopians strive for musical refinement, noble emotions, and the flawless delivery of obscure texts. But sometimes we just want a good laugh. That is why we are breaking out some of our favorites of the English language, with special attention to the adventurous, the narrative, and yes, the bawdy. Pieces will include Renaissance madrigals, ballads, catches, and songs of wit and mirth by Henry Purcell and his contemporaries. A WORD OF ADVICE: Hire a sitter for the little ones, unless you wish to explain a few things to them after the concert. Emily Nelson, soprano; Christopher LeCluyse, tenor; Mitchell Sturges, tenor; Lisa Chaufty, recorder; David Walker, lute
2011-2012
Istanpitta: Chevrefoil
Monday, September 12, 7:30 PM
Vieve Gore Recital Hall
Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory
Westminster College
1700 S 1200 E, Salt Lake City
Utopia joins the nationally touring medieval ensemble Istanpitta to recount the adventures of the heroic knight Tristan and his ill-fated love for the beautiful Irish princess Isolde. "Chevrefoil" brings to life the version of this story told by Marie de France, whose French-language poetry circulated in England a century after the Norman Conquest. Songs and dances from three centuries depict the passion, intrigue, and sorrow of this timeless story.
Utopia's Emiy Nelson, soprano, and Christopher LeCluyse, tenor, join some of the most skilled interpreters of medieval music: Tom Zajac, wind instruments; Al Cofrin, medieval lute; Shulamit Kleinerman, vielle; Therese Honey, harp; and Peter Maund, percussion.
Flor de Navidad: Music of Old and New Spain
Friday, December 9, 8:00 PM
Erbin Hall Oratory
Madeleine Choir School
Saturday, December 10, 5:30 PM
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
4615 S 3200 W, West Valley City
Sunday, December 11, 5:00 PM
Erbin Hall Oratory
When Spain’s ships landed in the Americas, the encounter would change both Spain and the New World forever. The blending of European, Native American, and African cultures can be heard today in everything from salsa music and reggaeton to the famous habanera from Bizet’s *Carmen*. “Flor de Navidad” marks the beginning of that mixture, celebrating the Christmas season with exhilarating dance songs from Mexico and Guatemala, choral works written in the language of the Aztecs, and a mysterious duet from the Spanish cathedral of Zaragoza. These works are as genuine and personal as they are pleasing,
expressing the union of the human and the divine. This concert is supported by a generous grant from the Salt Lake City Arts Council and will feature spoken explanations and program notes in both Spanish and English.
Friday, March 2, 8:00 PM
Holy Family Catholic Church
1100 E 5550 S, South Ogden
Saturday, March 3, 8:00 PM
Erbin Hall Oratory
Madeleine Choir School
Sunday, March 4, 5:00 PM
Erbin Hall Oratory
The Black Death, the Hundred Years War, floods, famine and a prolonged economic slump shaped life in14th century Europe, sparking peasant rebellion and urban riot. Little wonder that French composers sought control in a “New Art” that opened music to heights of complexity and expression. A breath of fresh air to some and a scandal to others, this daring new style joyfully wrung out the full range of rhythms made possible by the latest notation. At its apex was the great French poet and composer Guillaume de Machaut. Meanwhile in northern Italy, composers like Francesco Landini and Johannes Ciconia followed on the age of Dante with their own take on the new style. “Love’s Sanctuary” revels in the tuneful, refined and fascinatingly avant-garde textures of this boldly experimental period, showing how the old can sound new.
Generous Beauty: A Musical Tour of Baroque Italy Friday, May 11, 8:00 PM Sunday, May 13, 5:00 PM St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, Salt Lake City
Utopia Early Music finishes its third season with “Generous Beauty: A Musical Tour of Baroque Italy.” Join us on our romantic Italian adventure—a musical treat for Mother’s Day weekend!
“Generous Beauty” tours Italy in time and space, bringing you the early innovations of Monteverdi and his contemporaries—including women composers Francesca Caccini and Barbara Strozzi—as well as the late baroque sounds of Arcangelo Corelli, Alessandro Scarlatti, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, and Antonio Vivaldi. Discover Italy’s gift to the world in the passion, playfulness, and sensuality of this music.
Utopia’s founders, Emily Nelson (soprano) and Christopher LeCluyse (tenor) team up with Tyler Nelson (tenor), Ricky Parkinson (bass), Lisa Chaufty (recorder), Pamela Palmer Jones (harpsichord), and Frances von Seggern Bach (viola da gamba) for a lush baroque sonority.
2012-2013
Utopia Early Music and Ostraka: Music from the French Court Monday, October 22, 8:00 PM Vieve Gore Concert Hall Nationally touring string trio Ostraka and Salt Lake’s own Utopia Early Music present refined repertoire from seventeenth-century France, including intimate lute songs, passionate duets, and fiery instrumental variations. Performers will be Utopia’s Emily Nelson (soprano) and Christopher LeCluyse (tenor); and Ostraka’s John Lenti (lute and theorbo), David Walker (Baroque guitar), and Josh Lee (viol).
Heaven to Earth: A German Baroque Christmas December 7, 8:00 PM December 8, 8:00 PM December 9: 5:00 PM
St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, Salt Lake City
“Heaven to Earth: A German Baroque Christmas” journeys from expectation and longing to celebration and fulfillment. Presenting works of Johann Sebastian Bach, his contemporaries, and predecessors. Utopia's two founding members will be joined by eight other musicians, including two guest artists from San Francisco. A vocal quintet, two violinists, organ, and viola da gamba will perform works by Bach, Johann Hermann Schein, Samuel Scheidt, Heinrich Schütz, Dietrich Buxtehude, and others, including selections from Bach's Christmas Oratorio and settings of German Advent and Christmas songs that are still sung today.
Utopia’s founders, Emily Nelson (soprano) and Christopher LeCluyse (tenor) team up with Valerie Hart Nelson (mezzo-soprano), Tyler Nelson (tenor), Ricky Parkinson (bass), Leslie Henrie (violin), Rebekah Blackner (violin), Jonathan Rhodes-Lee (organ), Christopher Wootton (organ), and Josh Lee (viola da gamba) for a lush baroque sonority.
Harp of Éire: Six Centuries of Irish MusicMarch 8, 8:00 PM at Holy
Family Catholic Church, South Ogden Saturday, March 9, 8:00
PM Sunday, March 10, 5:00 PM
Cathedral Church of St. Mark, Salt Lake City
Celtic harp, fiddle, and flute lead listeners on a journey from the
earliest Irish chant to favorite nineteenth-century ballads. Utopia’s founders,
Emily Nelson (soprano) and Christopher LeCluyse (tenor) are joined by Antona
Yost (mezzo-soprano), Ricky Parkinson (bass), Lisa Chaufty (flute &
recorder), Bronwen Beecher (fiddle), and Therese
Honey (Celtic harp)
for a sparkling frolic through six hundred years of Irish music. From the tuneful to
the tearful, this nation’s beautiful tradition has the power to lift the
spirits and stir the soul. In addition to familiar nineteenth-century
favorites like “Danny Boy,” we present little-heard songs from the
fourteenth-century Dublin Troper, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century harp tunes, and twenty-first century
settings of traditional Irish texts.
The Morning Trumpet: American Medieval Friday and Saturday, May
10 and 11, 8:00 PM at the Cathedral Church of St. Mark, Salt Lake City
British settlers came to
the New World to escape the Old but unknowingly recreated the sounds of their
ancestors. Folk duo Otter Creek helps Utopia explore the parallels between
early American, medieval, and Renaissance music. Utopia’s founders, Emily
Nelson (soprano) and Christopher LeCluyse (tenor) are joined by Valerie
Hart-Nelson (mezzo-soprano), Ricky Parkinson (bass), Mary Danzig (fiddle), and
Peter Danzig (mandolin, guitar, banjo, and mountain dulcimer) for an evening of
robust frontier tunes and their older European cousins. Hear songs by William
Billings (the first named Anglo-American composer), ballads of the French and
Indian Wars, Sacred Harp tunes, and Gospel and folk favorites like “Wayfaring
Stranger” alongside monastic chant, Notre Dame polyphony, and the exquisite
interweavings of Dunstaple, Byrd, and Palestrina. The family resemblance may
surprise you! Emily Nelson, soprano and Christopher LeCluyse, tenor
with Valerie Hart Nelson, mezzo-soprano • Ricky Parkinson, bass
Mary Danzig, fiddle • Peter Danzig, mandolin, guitar & banjo
2013-2014
Harvest Song: Music of Medieval Germany
Friday, October 4, 8:00 PM
Saturday, October 5, 8:00 PM
Sunday, October 6, 5:00 PM Cathedral Church of St. Mark, Salt Lake City
Long before Wagner romanticized the medieval Meistersinger or Carl Orff wrote the ultimate soundtrack for cinematic battle, German medieval music thrived on its own terms. During the Twelfth Century Renaissance, the music of the troubadours found expression in the songs of the German Minnesänger, Hildegard von Bingen spun her ecstatic chants, and wandering clerics penned the saucy and soulful Carmina Burana. Gothic harp, recorder, and medieval fiddle join our voices in songs of earthly and heavenly love, loss, and revelry, from the chapel to the tavern.
Emily Nelson, soprano • Geoffrey Friedley, tenor • Christopher LeCluyse, tenor • Ricky Parkinson, bass
Lisa Chaufty, recorder • Shulamit Kleinerman, vielle • Therese Honey, Gothic harp
Star in the East: An Early Music Christmas
Friday, December 6, 8:00 PM; Saturday, December 7, 6:30 PM; and Sunday, December 8, 5:00 PM at the Cathedral Church of St. Mark, Salt Lake City.
Utopia presents our favorite works for the holiday season from around the world and across time, from medieval chant and English carols to early American hymns, French noëls, Italian lullabies, and a German Christmas oratorio. Festive and warm, these pieces speak directly to the heart. A full complement of strings and voices share their musical gifts: Emily Nelson, soprano; Clara Hurtado-Lee, soprano; Christopher LeCluyse, tenor; Michael Chipman, baritone; John Lenti, lute; Alexander and Aubrey Woods, violin; and Eleanor Cox, baroque cello.
From meditative to joyous, Utopia brings Christmas favorites from around the globe. The haunting O Antiphons, chanted since the seventh century, punctuate a program that includes Claudio Monteverdi’s festive psalm “Beatus Vir,” instrumental noëls by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, selections from Heinrich Schütz’s Christmas Story, and Handel’s “For unto Us a Child Is Born” sung in true Baroque style. Medieval English carols resound alongside an American hymn by William Billings and the fervent Epiphany song “Star in the East,” from the Sacred Harp tradition. The Cathedral Church of St. Mark, offers its special support for this concert as it prepares for Christmas.
Friday and Saturday, March 14 and 15 at 8:00 PM, and Sunday, March 16 at 5:00 PM at the Cathedral Church of St. Mark
For this concert, Utopia features local virtuosi trained in playing historical instruments. Co-founders Emily Nelson (soprano) and Christopher LeCluyse (tenor) will be joined by Jayne Drummond (Baroque oboe), Miyo Aoki and Lisa Chaufty (recorders), and Eleanor Christman Cox (Baroque Cello). Regular guest David Walker (theorbo and Baroque guitar) joins us from Louisville, Kentucky. Together, this ensemble will perform works by high Baroque greats on a human scale. All-wood woodwinds and gut strings bring a warm, vibrant, and sensuous sound to solos and duets from Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantatas, songs by George Frideric Handel, vocal and instrumental works by Henry Purcell, and sonatas by Georg Philipp Telemann and Francesco Barsanti.
The Black Dragon: Music from the Time of Vlad Dracula
Monday, May 12 Vieve Gore Concert Hall
Utopia joins the Bay Area's Cançonièr in an experience of 15th-century music from the cultural crossroads of eastern Europe during the reign of the infamous Vlad the Impaler, including a German ballad about the historic Dracula, music of the Byzantine court and church, Italian and French dances, Balkan folk songs, Turkish music, and the Lamentation for the Fall of Constantinople by Guillaume Dufay.
2014-2015
My Bonny Lass She Smelleth: PDQ Bach and More Saucy Songs of the Seventeenth Century
Saturday, October 18, 8:00 PM and Sunday, October 19, 5:00 PM at the Cathedral Church of St. Mark
Utopia Early Music kicks off the new season with a weekend of fun and frolic featuring selections from The Short-Tempered Clavier and The Art of the Ground Round by P.D.Q. Bach (a.k.a. Peter Schickele). To keep things historical, Utopia presents these “exquisite” masterworks alongside their legit, if still saucy, forebears: naughty songs from Elizabethan England, seventeenth century drinking songs, and even the humorous side of that other Bach.
For this concert, Utopia features local singers and historical instruments. Co-founders Emily Nelson (soprano) and Christopher LeCluyse (tenor) will be joined by Gretchen Windt (mezzo-soprano), Geoffrey Friedley (tenor), Ricky Parkinson (bass), Lisa Chaufty (recorder and flauto traverse) and Pamela Palmer Jones (harpsichord)
Saturday, December 6, at 8:00 PM and Sunday, December 7, at 5:00 PM at the Cathedral Church of St. Mark
Utopia celebrates the holidays with music of transporting beauty from the lands of the Celts. The program features songs and instrumentals in a solstice mode from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man, and Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Fiddler Bronwen Beecher, Celtic harpist Therese Honey, flutist Lisa Chaufty, and cellist Eleanor Christman Cox join a vocal quartet to span the full range of the season, from festive reels to winter lullabies. Hear medieval Irish chant, songs from Renaissance Scotland, settings of tunes from Wales and the Isle of Man, and Robert Burns’s original “Auld Lang Syne.”
For this concert, Utopia co-founders Emily Nelson (soprano) and Christopher LeCluyse (tenor) will be joined by local favorites Gretchen Windt (mezzo-soprano), Michael Chipman (baritone), Lisa Chaufty (recorder and flute), Bronwen Beecher (fiddle), and Eleanor Christman Cox (cello). Visiting artist Therese Honey (Celtic harp) joins Utopia from Houston.
The Dance of Love: Romantic Songs from Machaut to BrahmsMonday, February 23, 7:30 PM
In an epilogue to Valentines’ Day, Salt Lake’s Utopia Early Music will join members of the Westminster voice faculty in a fabulously diverse collection of songs on the countless shades and dimensions of love.
Emily Nelson, soprano • Aubrey Adams-McMillan, mezzo-soprano • Christopher LeCluyse, tenor • Michael Chipman, baritone • David Walker, lute • Emily Williams, piano • Kimi Kawashima, piano
Poignant Pleasures: Music of the French Baroque
Saturday, May 9, 8:00 PM, and Sunday, May 10, 5:00 PM Cathedral Church of St. Mark
French composers of the 17th and 18th centuries spun music of refined taste, luscious harmony, and poignant detachment. How one performs this music is as important as the music itself. Utopia and a skilled complement of strings present music of Marin Marais, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Andre Campra, Francois Couperin and other masters of je ne sais quoi Emily Nelson (soprano) and Christopher LeCluyse (tenor) will be joined by local virtuosi Alexander and Aubrey Woods (Baroque violins) and Eleanor Christman Cox (Baroque cello). Visiting artist Adam Cockerham (theorbo) joins Utopia from the San Francisco Bay Area.
New Song: A Musical Reformation Thursday, July 2, 8:00 PM Cathedral Church of St. Mark
Utopia Early Music explores the connections between sacred and secular music throughout the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in "New Song: A Musical Reformation." Hear the origins of favorite Protestant hymns and Bach chorales in chant, love songs, and madrigals as well as the Catholic response with music of extreme passion and intimacy. Several selections will require audience participation! This special concert is sponsored by the Cathedral Church of St. Mark in conjunction with the General Convention of the Episcopal Church.
Christopher LeCluyse (tenor) will be joined by Melissa Heath (soprano), Aubrey Adams-McMillan (mezzo soprano), Michael Chipman (baritone), Alexander and Aubrey Woods (Baroque violins), Leslie Richards (viola), and Eleanor Christman Cox (Baroque cello). Visiting artist Jonathan Rhodes Lee (organ) joins Utopia from Chicago.
2015-2016 Orpheus' Lyre: Music of the Italian BaroqueSaturday, October 3, 8:00 PM and Sunday, October 4, 6:00
Cathedral Church of St. Mark Utopia Early Music transports you to Baroque Italy for the blossoming of a musical revolution. Yearning for the expressive purity they imagined in antiquity, composers stretched as never before to create music that would stir the passions and feed the human soul with divine fire. A quartet of voices and virtuosic strings, including Bay Area lutenist Adam Cockerham, bring skill and vibrancy to rarely heard works from this crucial moment in music history.
Emily Nelson, soprano • Gretchen Windt, mezzo-soprano • Christopher LeCluyse, tenor • Jared Lesa, baritone Alex Woods, violin • Aubrey Woods, violin • Adam Cockerham, theorbo • Eleanor Christman Cox, baroque cello
Angel Song: A Medieval Christmas Saturday, December 5, 8:00 PM and Sunday, December 6, 5:00 PM Cathedral Church of St. Mark
Featuring meditative chant, breathtaking multi-voice textures, and rollicking Medieval dances, Angel Song: A Medieval Christmas will offer a special moment of holiday celebration for all ages. The program will include a scene from 13th century liturgical drama, The Play of Daniel, which has enjoyed a recent popular revival but has never been performed in Salt Lake. Additionally, Utopia will stretch its horizons to include medieval works from Eastern Europe. This concert is made possible in part by a generous grant from the Salt Lake City Arts Council. Emily Nelson, soprano • Megan Lee, mezzo-soprano • Christopher LeCluyse, tenor • Shulamit Kleinerman, vielle • Therese Honey, Gothic harp
Monday, February 29, 7:30 PM Vieve Gore Concert Hall, Westminster College Utopia Early Music joins area musicians on a nautical adventure, presenting songs of the sea from across the centuries. Early American and British boat songs and chanteys sail alongside hornpipes and ballads from the coasts of Europe.
Emily Nelson, soprano; Christopher LeCluyse, tenor; Aubrey Adams-MacMillan, mezzo-soprano; Michael Chipman, baritone; Ricky Parkinson, bass; Bronwen Beecher, fiddle, Lisa Chaufty, recorder; Michael Lucarelli, guitar; Loren Carle, harpsichord and bodhran, Kimi Kawashima, piano; Emily Williams, piano
Cancionero: Music of Three Spains Saturday, April 16, 8:00 PM and Sunday, April 17 , 5:00 PM, Cathedral Church of St. Mark Utopia finishes its season with Spanish flair! For eight centuries the blending of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish cultures left its mark on Spanish music. The musical influences that came together to produce flamenco and found their way into Latin American music were first expressed in pilgrim songs from Santiago da Compostella, the music of Sephardic Jews, and folk traditions of Muslim Spain. Emily Nelson, soprano • Christopher LeCluyse, tenor • Gretchen Windt, mezzo-soprano • Ricky Parkinson, bass Lisa Chaufty, recorder • Adam Cockerham, lute
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