The Closeted, the Converted, and the Steadfast explores Early Modern European composers whose personal religious identities required complex political and social negotiations. The program features a diverse array of musicians: a secretly Jewish composer whose family “converted” and fled the Portuguese Inquisition, a Roman Catholic in Protestant England whose religious identity was an open secret, a famed Italian composer with special permission not to wear the Star of David that would proclaim his Jewishness, a German Lutheran educated by Catholic mentors, and a French Catholic composer drawn to the classical mythologies of Ancient Greece. Come hear their stories and listen to their music.