Come to the New Ulm Public Library for a free 50-minute vocal recital featuring The Mirandola Ensemble on Friday, July 11, at 3 PM! The recital will feature a cappella choral music from the early American Sacred Harp tradition; traditional German music; and a set all about water and rivers. The program will span several centuries of music of many different styles and will include historiological descriptions helping the audience to contextualize the times and places of which the pieces were conceived. We hope you’ll join us! The Mirandola Ensemble, established in 2011, is a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based professional choral ensemble dedicated to promoting the highest standards of choral music and the idea of choral music as ‘high art’ in the Western tradition. The ensemble has served multiple years as a Class Notes Artist-in-Residence for Classical Minnesota Public Radio. The group’s three studio albums – “The Infant King: Advent and Christmastide,” “Unquiet Thoughts: The Lute Songs of John Dowland,” and “Nymphs & Angels” – are all available via iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, Spotify, and other streaming music services. The Mirandola Ensemble presents programs of rarely performed early music from the Medieval and Renaissance eras strategically juxtaposed with the compositions of 20th- and 21st-century composers.