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Four Composers from Spain

August 11, 2024, 10:00 pm

Madrid, Spain (photo by Jorge Fernández Salas)

Fiesta presents orchestral music by composers from different regions of Spain: Andrés Gaos from Galicia, Joaquín Turina from Andalusia, Eduard Toldrá and Xavier Montsalvatge from Catalonia.

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Impresión nocturna, by Andrés Gaos
Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia; Víctor Pablo Pérez, conductor

Empúries (Invocacion to Empordà) a Sardana Lliure for Orchestra, by Eduard Toldrà
Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra of Reutlingen; Salvador Mas Conde, conductor

Danzas fantásticas, Op. 22, by Joaquín Turina
Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra of Reutlingen; Salvador Mas Conde, conductor

Partita (1958), by Xavier Montsalvatge
BBC Philharmonic; Juan José Mena, 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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