December 4 — Blanton Museum of Art
At the height of its colonial power, Spain was known as "el imperio donde nunca se pone el sol" — "the empire where the sun never sets" — stretching from Europe to the Americas to the Philippines. Unlike France, it was never a centralized state, but instead a kingdom made up of kingdoms and viceroyalties that was home to an immense diversity of races, languages, and climates. This concert associated with the exhibition "Spirit and Splendor: El Greco, Velázquez, and the Hispanic Baroque," will consist of seventeenth-century vocal and instrumental music from all of Spain's regions.