Bringing The World Home To You

© 2024 WUNC North Carolina Public Radio
120 Friday Center Dr
Chapel Hill, NC 27517
919.445.9150 | 800.962.9862
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
WUNC End of Year - Make your tax-deductible gift!

Student Singers Give New Life To A Variation On Baroque Music

Members of The Georgetown University Chamber Singers perform for an audience. (Jeremy Koss)
Members of The Georgetown University Chamber Singers perform for an audience. (Jeremy Koss)

The Georgetown University Chamber Singers are turning back the clock 300 years, bringing centuries-old Baroque covers back to life, and back to the villages of South America where these covers were performed. Jesuit missionaries taught the music, which was composed in Europe, to the indigenous people of South America. This kind of cover is called “Mission Baroque,” and the only repository of this music has been found in Bolivia. WAMU’s Lauren Landau has the story.

Reporter

Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.