Mexican Baroque Concert and Lecture

Start: Friday, May 23, 2025 7:00PM
End: Friday, May 23, 2025 9:00PM

La Grande Bande, an ensemble of professional orchestral and vocal specialists in the Baroque period, conducted by founder Michael Asmus, will present music written by Juan Gutierrez de Padilla, the music director of the Basílica Catedral Metropolitana in Puebla, Mexico from 1628 until 1664. This is a not to be missed opportunity to hear 90 minutes of grand, indigenous, Mexican Sacred Music in Our Lady's Shrine.

We are very pleased that a pre-concert lecture will be given via Zoom by Dr. Luisa Vilar-Paya, the preeminent scholar of the Puebla Cathedral's musical life, from the Universidad de las Americas Puebla in Puebla, Mexico. She will discuss the music to be heard that evening, thereby deepening our appreciation and enjoyment of the music.

6:45pm Pre-concert Lecture in Crypt (lower level of Shrine Church)
7:30pm Mexican Baroque Concert (main level of Shrine Church)
9:00pm Downhill to Reception in Pilgrim Center
10:00pm Shrine Close