Sol y Sombra: In the Wake of the Convivencia

José Lemos, countertenor & Ensemble Brio

Steve Rosenberg, Renaissance guitar; Mary Anne Ballard, viola da gamba; Danny Mallon, percussion

Tuesday, February 4th 7:00pm

Espacio de Culturas @KJCC

53 Washington Square S, New York, NY 10012

This free concert is sold out and the waitlist is now closed.

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Born from the shadows of Al-Andalus and dispersed throughout the post-Expulsion Sephardic world, the kaleidoscopic Ladino language animates a program of love and loss and light and darkness that reaches across the centuries from Sefarad. From Argentina to Algeria and beyond, the repertoire is as vital today as it was half a milenium ago, thriving in the wake of exile, its enduring flame undimmed.GRAMMY® nominated Brazilian countertenor José Lemos, (“sultry but rousingly masculine timbre” – Voix des Arts) joins Ensemble Brio in a magical collection of exquisite music from the post-Expulsion diaspora.

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This concert is made possible in part by the generous support of NYU’s Espacio de Culturas of the King Juan Carlos I Center, the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies of NYU, the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies of NYU, the NYU Medieval and Renaissance Center, and the NYU Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.