Grammy Award-Winning Hespèrion XXI Will Perform at Baylor's School of Music

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WACO, Texas (Nov. 9)-- Grammy Award-winning Hespèrion XXI, an international music ensemble founded by Spanish viol player Jordi Savall, will perform at Baylor University as part of the School of Music's Distinguished Artist Series.

The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12, in Roxy Grove Hall, 624 Speight Ave.

"Jordi Savall is one of the world's finest musicians, an expert on historical performance practice from the Middle Ages through the Baroque Era. At the master class, students of the Baylor Early Music Ensemble will perform renaissance music for him, and he will coach them on their repertoire. This is a rare opportunity to get a glimpse into the working methods of a special musician and hear his insight about the music firsthand," said Jann Cosart, associate professor of Baylor musicology and director of the Baylor Early Music Ensembles.
The concert, "The Musical Europe: The Golden Age of Consort Viol Music, 1500-1700," will be divided into six sections: "Italian Dances of the Venetian Renaissance," "Elizabethan Consort Music," "Spanish Dances and Variations," "Music for King Louis XIII," "German Music" and "European Baroque Music."

Among the composers whose works will be heard are Anthony Holborne, John Dowland, Orlando Gibbons, Luys de Milán, Antonio de Cabezón, Samuel Scheidt, Johann Hermann Schein and Henry Purcell.

Hespèrion XXI, originally Hespèrion XX, was founded in Basel, Switzerland in 1974.

For more information or to purchase tickets, contact the Baylor School of Music box office at 254-710-3571 or visit www.baylor.edu/music. Tickets may also be purchased at the School of Music box office in the Glennis McCrary Music Building, 110 Baylor Ave.

Any unsold tickets will be available for purchase at the door in Roxy Grove Hall, beginning 30 minutes prior to the concert.

by Rebecca Malzahn , student newswriter, 254-710-6805
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