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December 12, 2020, 7:00 pm

Jimmy López Bellido (Photo: Igor Studios)

Classical music in the 20th and 21st century has had a strong presence throughout Latin America. Host Elbio Barilari share some of the most interesting and beautiful music to come out of Latin America in the past decade. Recent pieces by composers from Puerto Rico, Mexico, Argentina, and Uruguay.

Playlist

Comprendo, from the musical “Antonieta”, by Daniel Catán
Cecilia Duarte, mezzo-soprano; Joel Love, piano

Symphony No. 1, The Travails of Persiles and Sigismunda, by Jimmy López Bellido
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor

Preludio and La muerte danzando, from Piezas fanasticas, by Leonardo Coral
Alan Snow, violin; Joanne Chang, piano

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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.

Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari

Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari

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