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Great Orchestral Mexican Music: Julián Carrillo’s Symphony No.2

January 11, 2026, 8:00 pm

Mexican composer and pioneer Julián Carillo is better known for his microtonal, experimental music. However, aside from his musical laboratory, he was also an amazing post-romantic composers, in the vein of Richard Strauss and others. Fiesta presents this other side, the romantic side of Julián Carrillo.

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Symphony No. 2 in C Major

Schottisch (Isabel)

Variation V Allegretto from, Theme and Variations for Orchestra, Op. 2
Orquesta Sinfónica de San Luis Potosí; José Miramontes Zapata, 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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Great Orchestral Mexican Music: Julián Carrillo’s Symphony No.2

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