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New Tango Music

April 21, 2024, 10:00 pm

Pablo Ziegler (Photo: Shigeto Imura)

Since the 1920s, classical composers from Argentina and Uruguay drew inspiration from tango music, an urban genre developed in the twin cities across Rio de la Plata, Buenos Aires and Montevideo. On this Fiesta, we will hear tango-inspired pieces by four Argentine living composers.

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5 Preludios, by Maximo Diego Pujol
Jason Vieaux, guitar

Tango Rhapsody for 2 Pianos and Orchestra, by Federico Jusid
Duo Lechner Tiempo, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana; Jacek Kaspszyk, conductor

Milongueta, by Pablo Ziegler
Duo Lechner Tiempo

Concierto del Plata, by Carlos Franzetti
Sergio Puccini, guitar; San Francisco Camerata Americana; Jose Luis Moscovich, 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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