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Latin American Mix Tape

March 21, 2020, 7:00 pm

Fiesta presents a selection of the program’s favorite composers and works since the program started. We will be featuring music from different countries and even different continents, from the 16th to the 21st century.

Playlist

Três danças brasileiras, by Camargo Guarnieri
Orquestra Sinfônica Nacional; Ligia Amadio, conductor

Troka, by Silvestre Revueltas
Camerata de las Américas; Enrique Diemecke, conductor

El Decameron Negro, by Leo Brouwer
John Williams, guitar

Suite de Ballet según Figari, by Lamarque Pons
Orquesta Filarmónica de Montevideo; 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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