Latino Salon

May 28, 2022, 7:00 pm

Conductor Alonda de la Parra (photo by Felix Broede)

Popular in Europe in the 19th century, salon music made its way over to Latin America. Embraced by many composers and performers this style of music took on a new life across the ocean. Featured on this program is music from Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, and Brazil.

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Valsas da Esquina Nos. 1,2,3,4, by Francisco Mignone
Marcel Worms, piano

Melodie pour violon et orchestre, by Gustavo Campa
Daniel Andai, violin; Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas; Alonda de la Parra, conductor

Contradanzas cubanas, by Manuel Saumell
Dagmar Muñiz Alonso, piano

4 Valses. by Ramón Delgado Palacios
Monique Duphil, piano

Danzas cubanas, by Ernesto Cervantes
Jorge Luis Prats, piano

Sobre las olas, by Juventino Rosas
Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas; Alonda de la Parra, 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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