In 1518, at the marriage of the Italian Bona Sforza to Sigismund I of Poland, a new era of art and culture was brought to Poland. For years to come, Polish culture would reveal much about its scholars’ attendance at the learning centers at Padua and Bologna, and its musicians’ fascination with the great Venetian musical circles. Generations later in Russia, Peter the Great founded the Academy of Science (1724), establishing new cultural relations with progressive countries in Western Europe, and importing Italian composers, musicians and architects to develop a “flourish-filled” Muscovite culture. Join The Rose Ensemble for a choral demonstration of the “Italianate” works of Poland’s Mikołaj Zieleński and Russia’s Vasily Titov.