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Music for Peace

February 10, 2024, 7:00 pm

Inspiring, moving, and beautiful works by Latin American masters advocating for World Peace. Host Elbio Barilari will share works that will bring a sense of calm and meditation. Including Argentinean Ariel Ramírez’s Misa Criolla.

Playlist

Misa Criolla, by Ariel Ramírez
Ariel Ramírez, harpsichord and conductor; Los Fronterizos; Cantoría de la Basílica del Socorro

Alturas de Machu Picchu, by Elbio Barilari
Concertante di Chicago; Hilel Kagan conductor

Clarinet Concerto, by Esteban Benzecry
Mariano Rey, Clarinet; Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra; Pablo Boggiano, 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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