Loving Lusitano: Motets for 4 to 6 Voices by Vicente Lusitano and His Contemporaries

Newton Baroque would like to invite you to join us for an evening of music from 1550s Rome. The concert will center on music by Vicente Lusitano a composer active in Rome in the 1550s who came originally from Portugal and who appears to have been of mixed-race heritage with ancestry from West Africa. Lusitano is not well known today but for that matter most of the composers from the mid-16th Century are hardly household names. In an unusual modern twist there has been a growing fascination with the music of Lusitano because of his heritage that has created a sort of Lusitano “Renaissance” which has triggered not just attention on his music but a sort of renewed interest in the music from the mid-century. This music leans a bit more toward extravagance than the music from the previous or the subsequent generations. There is a focus on creating expansive sound palettes that linger in a sort of musical ecstasy. The sound is sumptuous generous and incredibly rich.

There will be a pre-concert lecture before the performance.

Tickets at: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/1114loving-lusitano-motets-for-4-6-voices-by-vicente-lusitano-and-his-contemporaries

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