This season's Howard Mayer Brown Memorial concert features an ensemble of eight women's voices directed by Ellen Hargis. We'll explore the music of the baroque convents of Italy and Mexico, where behind cloister walls, these gifted women composed, arranged, and performed virtuoso music for their own devotional use, singing in astonishing vocal ranges. Organ and viola da gamba will accompany the music of Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Alba Tressina, and Sulpitia Cesis; and from the Newberry Library Choirbooks, compositions by Fabían Pérez Ximeno, Juan de Lienas, and Tomás Luis de Victoria.

Read our program notes.

Date, Time and Location:

• Friday, January 20, 2012. 8:00pm, Saint Clement Church
  At the door: $35 general/$5 students (cash only)
  
• Saturday, January 21, 2012. 8:00pm, Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, Hyde Park
  At the door: $35 general/$5 students (cash only)
  
• Sunday, January 22, 2012. 3:00pm, Alice Millar Chapel, Northwestern University
  At the door: $35 general/$5 students (cash only)
  

Pre-concert lectures begin one hour before each performance.

Performers:

Ellen Hargis	Tracy Cowart	Frances Fitch	Elena Mullins
Debra Nagy	Sian Ricketts	Kate Shuldiner	Beverly Simmons
Josefien Stoppelenburg	Angela Young-Smucker