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Bang the Drum: Latin American Percussion Music

May 13, 2017, 7:00 pm

Tambuco Percussion Ensemble

The birth of “classical” percussion music has a name and a date: Amadeo Roldán, 1930. The seminal “Rítmicas” by this Cuban pioneer inspired Edgar Varèse to write his famous “Ionization” and a whole new musical field was born. Fiesta presents Latin American percussion pieces and works featuring percussion instruments in a prominent role.

Playlist

Rítmicas 5 y 6, by Amadeo Roldán
Tambuco Percussion Ensemble

Xochipili, by Carlos Chávez
Tambuco & Panamerican Ensemble, Eduardo Mata (conductor)

Metro Chabacano, by Javier Alvarez
Tambuco Percussion Ensemble

Danza Isorrítmica, by Mario Lavista
Tambuco Percussion Ensemble

Altar de Neón, by Gabriela Ortiz
Tambuco Percussion Ensemble

Organika 3: Brotes, by María Granillo
Tembembe Percussion Ensemble

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Meet the Host

Composer, musician, and professor, Elbio Rodríguez Barilari was born in 1953 in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he studied at the Conservatório Universitario before continuing his education in Brazil at the Cursos Latinoamericanos de Música Contemporáne. Since settling in the United States in 1998, Barilari has lectured at the University of Chicago and the Instituto Cervantes. He is currently on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago.

As a composer, Barilari has received commissions from the Grant Park Music Festival, Concertante di Chicago, Chicago Park District, and Orquesta Filarmonica de Montevideo. In addition to works for orchestra, chamber ensembles and solo instruments, he has provided scores for more than forty plays in the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

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