The elegance and candlelit beauty of the Sacred Heart Music Center and the celestial voices of the Rose Ensemble combined to create a magical evening of medieval and Renaissance music. The ensemble’s “A Rose in Winter/The Miracle of New Life in the Dark of Night” concert had nearly a full house for its one-night stop in Duluth. The audience was treated to an evening aglow with sublime peace and joy, perfect to ease the stresses of the week before Christmas and to warm the sou

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” quoth Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. But would an ensemble of any other name sing as sweet? The Rose Ensemble’s current program, A Rose in Winter, looks at first glance like it might be a play on The Lion in Winter over at the Guthrie, but the two could scarcely be more different. The theme of this concert offering is a floral tour of florid chant and polyphony from Hildegaard to Palestrina. A few instrumental selecti

‘Tis the season when an afternoon of soulful, serene music heard in a convent chapel is precisely what the doctor would order. Early Music Now presented just such a concert Sunday afternoon (a repeat of the concert they presented Saturday evening) featuring the St. Paul-based Rose Ensemble, in the St. Joseph Chapel in the convent of the School Sisters of St. Francis. The group, nine vocalists and an instrumentalist, presented their “A Rose in Winter: The Miracle of New Life i