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Elbio’s Desert Island Picks

July 22, 2017, 7:00 pm

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If you could only pick an hour of music to listen to the rest of your life, what would it be? Host, Elbio Barilari, will share with us some of his favorite music and composers. This is music he can’t live without! From Silvestre Revueltas to Astor Piazzolla let’s listen to some of Elbio’s Desert Island Picks.

Playlist

Noche de los Mayas, Mov.4, by Silvestre Revueltas
Orquesta Filarmónica de la Ciudad de México, Enrique Bátiz (conductor)

Rudepoêma, by Heitor Villa-Lobos
Nelson Freire (piano)

Estudios Sencillos, by Leo Brouwer
Ricardo Cobo (guitar)

Verano Porteño, by Astor Piazzolla
Astor Piazzolla and Tango Nuevo Quintet

Suite de ballet según Figari, by Jaurés Lamarque Pons
Orquesta Filarmónica Municipal, Federico García Vigil (conductor)

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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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