Santa Cruz Baroque Festival presents: In a Medieval Garden

Vajra Voices – 5 singers, Medieval harp and bells, directed by Karen Clark, contralto with Mary Springfels, vielle and citole Hildegard of Bingen, Medieval French music (Trouvère Songs, Guillaume de Machaut) The roots of our beloved classical music spring from prehistory, from the primordial forest of sacred chant and sung poetry illuminated by an occasional star like Saint Hildegard of Bingen, the Twelfth Century mystic called The Sibyl of the Rhine. Visionary composers based in Nôtre Dame de Paris gave us intricately woven multi-part sacred music, while aristocratic troubadours and trouvères such as Guiot de Dijon, a Thirteenth Century Burgundian poet, sang of courtly love. A century later, Guillaume de Machaut, the last artist equally skilled in poetry and music, created a unique Gothic vocal architecture. A Meet-the-Artist reception following this event welcomes donors, season ticket and flex-pass holders.