Mexican Polyphony

The Spanish conquest of Central Mexico in the early sixteenth-century is one of the defining moments of the early modern period. An hundred years on and Puebla (south of Mexico City) has a grand new cathedral, and the expertise and funds to instigate a musical tradition to rival its European counterparts. In this concert we will examine the music that was exported to Puebla and indeed the superb output of the Pueblan composer Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla. But at what cost?

Host or Publisher Iken Scholars