Puerto Rico has a strong popular music scene from different regions of the island. It also has a long and intense classical music history that is enhanced by this regional music. As a political exile of the great Spanish cellist Pau Casals, who lived and taught there and created an important international festival. In this program, Fiesta presents four Puerto Rican composers.
Classical Music from Puerto Rico
Ernesto Cordero Soybohemioyque, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Playlist
El Coqui: Danza de Puerto Rico, by Jose Ignacio Quintón
Darko Domitrović, piano
Insula, by Ernesto Cordero
Guillermo Figueroa, violin; I Solisti di Zagreb
Rito Ceremonial of the Church of the Spanglish Nación, by William Ortiz-Alvarado
Orquesta Camerata Filarmónica; Emanuel Olivieri, conductor
Divertimento del Sur, by Hector Campos Parsi
Casals Festival Orchestra; Milton Katims, conductor
