Imaginario: An Imaginary Songbook of Renaissance Spanish Music at Pacific Spirit United Church

Of the thousands of guitar-like vihuelas built in the 16th century, only five or six are known to exist today. In this imaginative exploration, Ariel Abramovich picks up the forgotten instrument and is joined by illustrious Argentian soprano Mara Cristina Kiehr in a program that blends truth and fiction by interweaving segments of the surviving seven books of vihuela repertoire with manuscripts of the era. The resulting imaginary songbook is a musical joy that teases at the mystery of the vihuelas disappearance.