Back to Legnano, Italy

concerts, rose ensemble, touring

For an unprecedented return engagement, The Rose Ensemble has been invited back to participate in the “La Fabbrica del Canto”, an international choral festival that takes place in and around the Milan region of Northern Italy.  The following blurb was...

Spring has sprung, finally…

family, touring

April Showers have begun to fall and the lawn is developing this beautiful emerald color, trees are beginning to pop and the buds on my daffodils are swelling.  I’m hoping this year that they will actually bloom.  Last Spring was not kind – we had a warm...

Back Home from France, sigh…

rose ensemble, touring

The last of the summer European tours is behind us. The Rose Ensemble headed out to Paris and Tours for a whirlwind 4 days in France with 2 concerts in different cities. We had a blast. The first concert, part of the Festival d’Ile de France, was in an ancient...

Ah Paris!

rose ensemble, touring

Well, our last European tour of the summer is rapidly approaching.  On September 12th The Rose Ensemble will board a plane and fly to Paris where we have been invited to perform our Hawaiian program at the Festival d’Ile de France in the Eglise Saint-Mathurin de...

Home Again

rose ensemble, touring

A wonderful three weeks in France has come and gone and we have so many great memories from this tour.  It’s hard to describe the experience of singing music written for churches of the medieval period when you sing them in the buildings they were designed...

Vaison la Romaine

rose ensemble, touring

This is just stunning.  After an 8 hour drive from Autun thru ever changing landscape and vast vineyards and a brief stop in Cluny, we  reached the ancient city of Vaison la Romaine. Taken over from the Celts by the Romans in the 2 BC, the city is one of 2 parts.  The...