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LP Treasures: Louisville Orchestra Recordings

April 6, 2019, 7:00 pm

This week we dig through our old LPs and find rare and adventurous recordings made by the Louisville Orchestra of Blas Galindo, Joaquín Nin-Culmell, and Roberto Garcia Morillo.

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Diferencias, by Joaquín Nin-Culmell
Louisville Symphony Orchestra; Jorge Mester, conductor

Ponteios: Variaciones Olímpicas, Op. 24, by Roberto García-Morillo
Louisville Symphony Orchestra; Robert Whitney, conductor

Symphony No. 2, by Blas Galindo
Louisville Symphony Orchestra; Jorge Mester, 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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LP Treasures: Louisville Orchestra Recordings

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