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A Visit to Mexico

October 10, 2020, 7:00 pm

For thousands of years Mexico has been at the forefront of civilization and music in the Americas. Elbio Barilari will be guiding this new excursion south of the border. We will feature music from the 17^th to the 21^st century.

Playlist

Sol fa de Pedro, by Manuel de Sumaya
Chanticleer Ensemble

Preludio from Ildegonda, by Melesio Morales
Carlos Chávez Symphony Orchestra; Fernando Lozano, conductor

Sonata Clásica, by Manuel Ponce
Jason Vieaux, guitar

Xochipilli, by Carlos Chávez
La Camerata (Panamerican Chamber Players); Tambuco (Mexican Percussion Quartet); Eduardo Mata, conductor

Ventanas, by Silvestre Revueltas
Orquesta Filarmónica de la Ciudad de México; Enrique Bátiz, 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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