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The Latino Concert Hall

June 9, 2018, 7:00 pm

Join host, Elbio Barilari as he takes you on a musical tour of Latin American and Iberican concert music. Featuring some of the greatest music written for the concert hall including the music of Heitor Villa-Lobos, Federico Moreno Torroba, and Manuel de Falla.

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Music

Concierto Ibérico, for four guitars and orchestra by Federico Moreno Torroba
Celedonio, Celin, Pepe and Angel Romero, guitars; Academy St-Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor

Concerto for harpsichord and 5 instruments by Manuel de Falla
Igor Kipnis, harpsichord; Members of the New York Philharmonic; Pierre Boulez, conductor

Fantasia for Cello and Orchestra, by Heitor Villa-Lobos
Janos Starker, cello; Orquestra Sinfonica da Paraíba; Eleazar de Carvalho, conductor

Fiesta is made possible by the generous support of Joyce Saxon and the listener supporters of the WFMT Fine Arts Circle.

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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.