Crossing Borders explores a crucial moment in the musical history of the New World: when European musical traditions began to mingle with indigenous musical practices.
This festive program for the holiday season includes villancicos and romances for voices and ensemble plus instrumental works drawn from the rich repertoire of 17th- and 18th-century colonial and Latin American cultures. Musical selections by Roque Ceruti, José Duran, Antonio de Salazar, Manuel Joseph Quiroz, Sebastián Duron and others illustrate the multiple and creative ways music traverses cultural and national borders.
The in-person performance of Crossing Borders is presented to our six-concert subscribers only. A limited number of in-person single tickets are also available for this performance.
There are also livestream tickets available for the Crossing Borders touring performance, presented by Music Before 1800 in New York, NY.
Concert Information
Season subscriptions and single tickets
This in-person concert is only available for full six-concert subscribers; if you are a full six-concert ALH subscriber, your seats have already been reserved.
There are also a very limited number of single tickets available.
Masks are required at this performance.
Touring performance: concert broadcast tickets
Crossing Borders is going on tour to New York, in collaboration with Music Before 1800. There will be a live-streamed concert broadcast presented by MB1800, which will be available from December 26-January 9. ALH Subscribers and Digital Subscribers receive a discount on concert broadcast tickets.
About the Artists
Artist reviews
“Mezzo-soprano Cecilia Duarte… has a robust voice suited to her passionate character, and her tone exudes fierce determinedness…”
–Houstonia
“Her face alight with smiles and expressive nuance, Ortiz deployed her vibrant tone and lush tremolo to striking effect. Even as the score exacted its demands for precision runs, leaps, and languid trills, the singer seemed at ease… the Alleluia glittered with light and liquid ornamentation."
–San Francisco Classical Voice
