Diaspora

July 13, 2025, 8:00 pm

Roberto Sierra

Elbio Barilari introduces Fiesta’s listeners to orchestral works highlighting the plight of immigrants from Latin America. With music by Cuban, Puerto Rican and Uruguayan composers who now reside in the USA: Roberto Sierra, Paquito D’ Rivera, and Elbio’s own work titled Immigrant Music.

Playlist

Alegria, by Roberto Sierra
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; Domingo Hindoyan, conductor

Immigrant Music, by Elbio Barilari
Chicago Arts Orchestra; Javier Mendoza, conductor

Gran Danzón, flute concerto, by Paquito D’Rivera
Julio Toro, flute; Orquesta de Córdoba; Miguel Hernández Silva, conductor

A Joyous Overture, by Roberto Sierra
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra; Zdenek Macal, 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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