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Piazzolla and the Guitar

June 8, 2019, 7:00 pm

Astor Piazzolla and his orchestra, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons

Astor Piazzolla was a composer and a bandoneon player (the tango accordion). However, he loved the guitar, he and was an expert writer for it. Fiesta will share some of these great pieces including the beautiful Double Concerto for Bandoneon and Guitar.

Playlist

5 Guitar Pieces, by Astor Piazzolla
Eduardo Fernandez, guitar

Tango Suite for Two Guitars
Duo Pace Poli Cappelli

Double Concerto for Bandoneon and Guitar
I Solisti di Parma; Matteo Mela, guitar; Per Arne Glorvigen, bandoneon

Asleep, from Five Tango Sensations
Fareed Haque, guitar; KAIA String Quartet

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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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