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Colonial Music from Perú and Brazil

April 14, 2018, 7:00 pm

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The Viceroyalty of Perú and the Portuguese colonies in Brazil were home to some of the most prominent composers from the colonial period, and yet many of them are still unknown. Fiesta pays tribute these fantastic composers and sheds light on music from over 300 years ago.

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Ladainha de Nossa Senhora, by Marcos Coelho Neto Filho
Camerata Antiqua de Curitiba; Roberto de Regina, conductor

Salve Regina, by Inacio Parreiras Neves

Magnificat, by Manoel Días de Oliveira
Americantiga; Ricardo Bernardes, director

Baroque Suite, by Anonymous
Javier Echecopar, 18^th century guitar; Cuarteto de Cuerdas de Lima

Te Deum Laudamus, by Luis Alvares Pinto
Camerata Antiqua de Curitiba; Roberto de Regina, 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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Colonial Music from Perú and Brazil

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