Come and hear why the combination of voice and lute has been one of the most revered and symbolically significant musical combinations since antiquity. Join tenor Eric Mentzel and lutenist August Denhard for a program that explores the flowering of solo song in the 16th century: virtuoso pieces by the first composers of Italian opera, elegant settings of the English Cavalier poets, alluring French airs de cour, and Elizabethan lute songs from England's Golden Age. This is a program that evokes the fascinating time when the lute was an emblem of Orpheus, whose music could open even the gates of hell. Singing to the lute meant literally capturing an element of the divine and harnessing the power to move men's souls.
Tickets: $20 general, $15 seniors, $10 Students and NUUC members, available online, by phone, or at the door on the evening of the performances.
Free parking in the church parking lot.
The Early Music Guild of Seattle partners with Northlake Unitarian Universalist Church to present this series of early music concerts performed by Seattle’s finest professional performers of historically informed music. The performances cover over 700 years, representing the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods, with composers both well-known and unknown. Enjoy this great chamber music in the lovely, intimate chapel at NUUC.
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