Pastores de Belén

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*Both concerts include a prelude by Liamna Pestana beginning at 7pm*

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Sunday, December 21 at 7:30pm at Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church, 5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

Saturday, December 27 at 7:30pm at Erwin First United Methodist Church, 920 Euclid Ave., Syracuse 

Tickets are $20 ($15 for seniors, $5 for students)

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​A semi-dramatic presentation of the novella by Lope de Vega (contemporary of Cervantes) with accompanying music by Gaspar Fernandéz, Francisco Guerrero and other Renaissance Hispanic composers. Selections from the novella, in English translation, will be interspersed with Christmas villancicos (Spanish madrigals) setting poems from Pastores de Belén, sung in Spanish.

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Schola Cantorum is arranging for the first-time translation into English of the Lope de Vega excerpts. Liamna Pestana, a skilled guitarist, lutenist, soprano, and scholar of Hispanic early music, formerly a Syracuse resident and Schola Cantorum singer and instrumentalist, will be returning to Syracuse to participate as a guest artist.