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ImageAurora, New York - The Wells College Arts & Lecture Series Committee is pleased to present the award-winning Baltimore Consort on Friday evening, September 26. The concert, entitled "¡Cancionero! A Songbook for the King of Spain," features counter tenor José Lemos. The performance will take place in Phipps Auditorium, Macmillan Hall, at 7:30 p.m.

A virtuoso ensemble, the Baltimore Consort specializes in the courtly and popular music of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, as well as traditional music rooted to earlier times. Their variety of instruments - lute, viol, flute, cittern, early guitar, recorder, and more - and their lively performances have delighted audiences on both sides of the Atlantic and earned them recognition as Billboard magazine's 1993 "top classical crossover artist."

The Baltimore Consort was formed in 1980, and has toured widely in the U.S. and abroad, appearing in concert halls, schools and festivals, as well as on syndicated radio broadcasts on the BBC, CBC, Performance Today, and others. While in Aurora, they will also offer a master class for Wells students.

The concert at Wells, "¡Cancionero! A Songbook for the King of Spain," features early Spanish music. Prior to the final defeat of the Moors and expulsion of the Jews in 1492, Spain was a land of three cultures. This story is told in anonymous works in palace cancioneros (songbooks), music by the influential courtly composer Juan del Encina, and in the books of the vihuelistas (early guitar players). The Baltimore Consort, with counter tenor Jose Lemos, presents the stirring and lively melodies from this turbulent period in Spain's history.

Each year, the Wells College Arts & Lecture Series brings professional artists to campus to perform, to speak on relevant issues, and to represent the disciplines of theatre, music, and dance. Groups and individuals are selected annually by a committee composed of Wells faculty, staff and students.

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