Manuel Blasco was a composer in Quito, Ecuador who lived from c.1628-1695. He studied music at Colegio San Andrés in Lima, Peru, and later taught there. He was also Chapelmaster at Quito Cathedral. Today’s Beautiful Music is Manuel Blasco’s La Chacona me piden, ¡vaya! performed by sopranos Danielle Sampson and Tess Altveros and their colleagues in Pacific MusicWorks from a December 2020 concert.