to the concert event of the season!

Jerusalem: A City of Two Peaces

Jordi Savall's newest musical and cultural experience

featuring music and texts spanning two millennia

from the Jewish, Muslim, and Christian traditions

Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at 8pm

Sanders Theatre at Harvard University

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Listen:

Fanfare of Jericho (shofar ensemble, 1200 BC)

Prayer for Jerusalem (Psalm 121 from the Psalms of King David)

Instrumental dance (Liberation of the city by the Maccabees, 164 AD)

This spring, the Boston Early Music Festival welcomes the incomparable Catalonian viola da gambist Jordi Savall, who will lead his newest musical and cultural project, Jerusalem: A City of Two Peaces. Conceived as an homage to Jerusalem, the city endlessly built and destroyed by man in his quest for the sacred and for spiritual power, Savall and his musicians - Palestinians and Israelis of Al-Darwish as well as Savall's European ensembles Hespèrion XXI and La Capella Reial de Catalunya - chart the city's history from 1200 BC to the present day.  It begins with the sound of the shofars in the Jericho fanfare, and ends with a series of songs, laments, and instrumental works from the variety of traditions that have become embedded in the cultural fabric of Jerusalem in the last 500 years.  Experience the magic and mysticism of this incredible city brought to life through music and texts spanning two millennia.