Anima Baroque at St. Andrew's-Sewanee School

Anima Baroque Musical Ensemble features the talents of Motomi Igarashi (viola de gamba and lirone), Christa Patton (harp), Beth Anne Hatton (vocalist) and Vita Wallace (violin), from left.
Anima Baroque Musical Ensemble features the talents of Motomi Igarashi (viola de gamba and lirone), Christa Patton (harp), Beth Anne Hatton (vocalist) and Vita Wallace (violin), from left.
photo Anima Baroque Musical Ensemble features the talents of Motomi Igarashi (viola de gamba and lirone), Christa Patton (harp), Beth Anne Hatton (vocalist) and Vita Wallace (violin), from left.

St. Andrew's-Sewanee School will host Anima Baroque, a musical ensemble that highlights European music of the early 17th-century, in a performance Friday, Jan. 29, in Sewanee, Tenn.

The musicians specialize in music for small ensemble and voice from the Baroque and late Renaissance, played on period instruments. The group features harpist Christa Patton, violinist Vita Wallace, viola da gamba and lirone player Motomi Igarashi and vocalist Beth Anne Hatton.

Their program is "Postcards From Orpheus," which casts Orpheus, the legendary musician, poet and prophet of Greek mythology, as an eternal world traveler, checking out the music scene wherever he goes and writing to Eurydice, his wife.

As legend has it, Orpheus has wandered the world with his lyre and haunted the imaginations of musicians ever since he almost succeeded in singing his wife back from the dead, only to have his heart broken again.

Anima Baroque performs almost exclusively in New York, so this is a rare opportunity to see the group perform in the Southeast.

The performance will begin at 7 p.m. CST in McCrory Hall for the Performing Arts on the SAS campus, 290 Quintard Road. Admission is free.

For more information, visit www.sasweb.org.

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