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Music for the Ballet

June 24, 2023, 7:00 pm

Nicole Rhodes as Svanhilda at the Royal Swedish Opera (Photo: Kungliga Operan, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Many of the most formidable pieces of the last hundred years have been dedicated to the ballet or modern dance. Latin American music is not the exception. Fiesta will present some of the most beloved, magical, and dramatic Latin American works for dance.

Playlist

Malambo from Estancia Suite, Op.8, by Alberto Ginastera
Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela; Eduardo Mata, conductor

Suite after Figari, by Lamarque Pons
Orquesta Filarmónica de Montevideo; Federico García Vigil, conductor

Suite de Caballos de Vapor (Horse Power Suite), by Carlos Chávez
Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela; Eduardo Mata, conductor

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.

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff

Music for the Ballet

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