The following excerpt is from a February 10, 2010 article published in The Milwaukee Journal Sentinal Online. To read the article in its entirety, please click here.
Guatemala and Renaissance music do not go together in many people’s minds.
Nevertheless, Ensemble Lipzodes will explore that correlation at their concert Saturday, presented by Early Music Now.
Spain’s New World colonies had a thriving arts scene in the 1500s. Ensemble Lipzodes’ repertoire comes from 15 volumes of musical manuscripts from Guatemalan churches now housed at Indiana University.
The group comprises musicians at IU who were excited at the prospect of resurrecting previously unknown music. Most of the compositions do not specify instruments, but it will be performed on shawms and dulcians, the Renaissance predecessors of the oboe and bassoon….
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