The San Francisco Early Music Society

LIBER : Ensemble for Early Music

Melanie Germond, soprano; William Hudson, tenor, with guest artists Carrie Henneman Shaw, soprano, and Jordan Sramek, tenor

—Crowned with Laurels—
Poetry and Music in Trecento Italy

The award-winning ensemble LIBER (formerly Liber unUsualis) explores the elegant beauty and fiery emotions of fourteenth century Italian music. They pay tribute to the revered fathers of Humanism—Francesco Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Franco Sacchetti—through musical settings of their poems by Jacopo da Bologna, Niccolò da Perugia, and the poet-composer Francesco Landini, who was honored by King Peter of Cyprus with a crown of laurels.

Friday, March 26, First Lutheran Church, Palo Alto, 8:00

Saturday, March 27, St. John's Presbyterian Church, Berkeley, 7:30

Sunday, March 28, St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 1111 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco, 4:00