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Island Hopping

April 5, 2026, 8:00 pm

Isla de Janitzio Adavyd, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Host, Elbio Barilari takes you on a musical trip to the many islands in Latin America and Spain. We will visit the Canary Islands, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Cuba.

Playlist

Barcarola, Op. 21, by Teobaldo Power
Patrick Cohen, piano

Janitzio, by Silvestre Revueltas
Xalapa Symphony Orchestra; Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor

3 Danzas cubanas, by Alejandro García Caturla
The New World Symphony; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

Symphony No. 3 ‘La Salsa’, by Roberto Sierra
Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico; Maximiano Valdés, conductor

Anne Marie, by Rudolf Palm
Marcel Worms, piano

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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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