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Latin American Choral Music
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Latin American Choral Music was presented on April 17 and 18, 2010, in
Great Barrington and Lime Rock.
Both performances were preceded by a pre-concert talk by Crescendo Vice
President Juliet Mattila 30 minutes. A draft of Ms. Mattila's remarks,
entitled "The Fusion of European and Indigenous Musical Traditions", is
available
HERE in PDF format. This concert marked the first
where Crescendo tickets were available for online sale. We
anticipate that a CD-ROM of the Great Barrington performance will be
available for sale shortly.
View a copy of the
concert program here.
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CONCERT:
Latin American Choral Music
April 17 & 18, 2010 |
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Crescendo
Chorus
Soloists
Duo
Alturas
Period
and Folk Instruments |
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Sacred
and
Secular
Baroque &
Contemporary
Compositions
from:
Chile
Mexico
Peru
Argentina
Brazil |
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Christine Gevert, Artistic
Director |
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Crescendo's Spring 2010 concert featured secular and sacred choral
and instrumental music of the cultural Hispanic centers of the New World
from the 16th century to our present days. Latin American Renaissance,
Baroque, Classic, Romantic and folk-originate works in a rich array of
textures, styles and sonorities, from chorus-orchestra down to
voice-and-guitar. Spanish colonists carried the musical traditions of
the European Renaissance to the native people of the Americas, and,
through time and circumstance, these traditions merged to create a
musical genre with a rich historical grounding. A treasury of sacred
works by the finest composers from Spain and the New World from the
cathedrals of Sucre, Lima and Sevilla. But it's not all religious music
- there also were famous arrangements of folk songs, tonadas and poem
songs from Chile, Argentina, and Brazil. Some of the featured composers
were Juan Orrego Salas (Chile, founder of the Latin American Music
Center at the Bloomington, Indiana Univ. and the Center for Latin
American and Caribbean Studies”), Gustavo Becerra (Chile), Domingo Santa
Cruz (Chile), Ariel Ramirez (Argentina), Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco
(Peru), Juan de Araujo (Bolivia) and Juan de Herrera (Colombia). The
newest pieces on the program features Brazilian composers Raimundo
Penaforte (Brazil) and Javier Farias (Chile).
For the second time since the performances of “Misa Criolla” in 2006, we
collaborated with the Latin American ensemble “Duo Alturas” and
other specialists from Boston and New York. They performed on Baroque
and modern instruments—among them baroque and modern guitar, charango
and ronroco, viola and percussion. |
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