Crescendo: Revolutionary Renaissance—Motets and Madrigals
St. James Place 352 Main St, Great Barrington, MAThis program features motets by the Portuguese composer Vicente Lusitano, one of the earliest known mixed-race composers of African descent, whose works were published in his lifetime. Lusitano’s style resembles Josquin des Prez’, and is highly complex and of extraordinary beauty. We still know very little about female composers of those times, as it was […]