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A Mexican Concerto

April 28, 2024, 10:00 pm

Carlos Chávez Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Fiesta presents a full concert of Mexican music by composers from three different generations. We’ll hear Candelario Huízar’s Imágenes, Carlos Chávez’ Toccata for Percussion and Eduardo Angulo’s Concerto for Harp and Strings.

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Toccata for Orchestra, by Carlos Chávez
Claudia Coonce, oboe; The State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra; Enrique Bátiz, conductor

Imágenes, by Candelario Huízar
Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas; Alondra de la Parra, conductor

Concerto for Harp and Strings, Op. 15, by Eduardo Angulo
Janet Paulus, harp; Solistas de Minería; Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor

Tres Cartas de Mexico, 3rd Movement, by Miguel Bernal Jimenez
Cecilia Lopez, Juan Reves, Jesus Ruiz, guitars; Orquestra Filharmonica de la Ciudad de Mexico; Enrique Batiz, 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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