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Symphonic Music from Argentina

June 2, 2024, 10:00 pm

Lake Nahuel Haupi, Argentina (David, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

A powerhouse of Latin American classical music, Argentina boasts some of the most skilled composers of the 20^th century. We’ll hear gorgeous and melodic music from Carlos López Buchardo, Julián Aguirre, and Carlos Guastavino.

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Escenas Argentinas, by Carlos López Buchardo

Dos Danzas Argentinas, by Julián Aguirre

Salmo al Paraná, by Oscar Giúdice

El tarco en flor, by Luis Gianneo
Orquesta Sinfonica de Entre Ríos; Gabriel Castagna, conductor

Las Presencias: Jeromita Linares (No. 6), by Carlos Guastavino
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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