Sometimes/Once On Sunday

Golden Rose Synagogue, Lviv, Ukraine, 1941
Золота Роза синагога у Львові
בית הכנסת טורי זהב

[The Golden Rose Synagogue was the oldest synagogue in Ukraine.]

Free performance by the Rose Ensemble at the National Gallery of Art on Sunday at 6:30 PM

The Rose Ensemble Program

From the Land of Three Faiths
Voices of Ancient Mediterranean Jews, Christians, and Muslims
Traditional Sephardic (Morocco)
Cuando’l Rey Nimród
Juan del Encina (1485 – c. 1530)
Pues que tú, Reyna del çielo
Traditional Sephardic (Morocco/ Turkey)
Una matica de ruda
Porke yorash
Plainchant (Twelfth-century Italian)
Cives caelestis patriae
Anonymous (Fourteenth-century English)
Iudea et Ierusalem
Traditional Sephardic
Sette hijos tiene Hanna
Traditional Sephardic (Morocco)
Koplas de las flores
Anonymous
Rey a quien reyes adoran
From Cancionero de Upsala (Fifteenth century)
Anonynous
¡O Reyes magos benditos!
From Cancionero musical de palacio (Fifteenth century)
Francisco Guerrero (c. 1528 – 1599)
Niño Dios d’amor herido
Arab-Andalusian (In the Az’zaidan mode)
B’tayhi-M’saddar
Traditional Sephardic
Hazeremos una merenda
Quita’l tas, mete’l tas

Intermission

Thirteenth-century Spanish
Cantiga no. 424
From Cantigas de Santa Maria
Hispano-Arabic muwashaha (In the kurdī mode)
Ayyu-hā s-sāqī ’ilay-ka l-muštakà
Traditional Turkish
Arabaya Taş Koydum
Traditional Sephardic (Salonika)
Morena me llaman
Traditional Bedouin
Two Simsimiyya Songs
Arranged for instrumental ensemble by The Rose Ensemble
Sephardic Piyyut (Libya)
Et Sha’are Ratzón
Traditional Sephardic (Balkan)

Concert Notes

Photo source: 1941 photo by Janusz Witwicki from the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, Kyiv, Ukraine -- via Wikipedia.