La Nacional. Spanish Benevolent Society of New York since 1868.

An evening of music and song from al-Andalus and North Africa Artistic Director, Samuel Torjman Thomas, Ph.D. For five hundred years, Christians, Jews, and Muslims lived side by side in medieval Iberia, sharing their arts and sciences to create a scintillating, multicultural tradition of music and poetry. Singing in Arabic, Hebrew, and Ladino to reflect this cultural pluralism, the New York Andalus Ensemble presents spiritual texts and songs of love and everyday life in Al-Andalus, emphasizing the expressive quality of…