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The Great Alberto Ginastera

March 25, 2023, 7:00 pm

Alberto Ginastera

One of the greatest 20^th century composers, Alberto Ginastera weaved Latin American musical idioms into his music seamlessly. Fiesta will look at the maestro’s incredible catalog and share some of Elbio Barilari’s favorite recordings of Ginastera.

Playlist

Piano Sonata No. 1, by Alberto Ginastera
Gabriela Montero, piano

Pampeana, for cello and piano, by Alberto Ginastera
Aurora Natola Ginastera, cello; Alberto Portugheis, piano

Popol Vuh, La creación del mundo maya Op.44, by Alberto Ginastera
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln; Stefan Asbury, 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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