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Nájera travels home to the Southwest to visit Latino scholars from ASU’s Transborder Studies department. The first of its kind in the nation. Chica...
- Added: Jun 08, 2018
- Length: 22:40
Experience Panquetzaliztli, a traditional Mesoamerican winter solstice performance by the Ehecatl Aztec Dancers, through their drums and the tellin...
- Added: May 17, 2018
- Length: 43:39
Juan Delgado describes a dangerous journey by a series of freight trains that migrants from Central America use to reach the U.S. border.
- Added: Jun 26, 2017
- Length: 04:00
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From Colombia to Argentina and from Chile to Brazil, Fiesta features music representing different traditions and landscapes.
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- Length: 58:30
In 1959 Miles Davis and Gil Evans put together a famous jazz version of the omnipresent Concierto de Aranjuez, by Joaquin Rodrigo. Now, multi-talen...
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- Length: 58:29
Latin America's second major religion and the launch of our river of the American Dream.
- Added: Nov 19, 2016
- Length: 09:59
Guitar music is one of the strongest points and Latin American and Spanish music. In this program, we include 19th century guitar music from Perú a...
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- Length: 58:29
Time, of course, is a key element of music. Music develops itself in time. We talk about keeping time and beating time. Let’s see how composers fro...
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- Length: 58:29
Enjoy some of the many musical treasures found in the archives and cathedrals of Latin America. We will feature music from the 16th to 19th century...
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- Length: 58:30
Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, has inspired much music in Latin American culture. Though closely associated with American Halloween festiv...
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- Length: 58:29
Jazz saxophonist Chico Freeman talks about his famous father, Von Freeman, and about his experiences living in Europe. Freeman has now returned to ...
- Added: Aug 04, 2016
- Length: 30:00
Guitar virtuoso Fareed Haque and the rising stars Kaia String Quartet, are featured in exclusive recordings of works for guitar and string quartet ...
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- Length: 58:29
The Chicago Panamerican Ensemble has built a solid reputation over the years. The group, led by pianist Beatriz Helguera and cellist Andrew Snow ha...
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- Length: 58:30
The Latino Music Festival celebrated this year its 10th anniversary with a spectacular program presented all across Chicago. Fiesta features a sele...
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- Length: 58:30
Tributes from one composer to another have been a favorite practice since the Renaissance. In this program Fiesta showcases delightful works dedica...
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- Length: 58:30
The Latino Music Festival celebrated this year its 10th anniversary with a spectacular program presented all across Chicago. Fiesta features a sele...
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- Length: 58:29
21st century music has broken away from the cage imposed by the 100-year-old tradition of “experimental”, “contemporary”, “new music” and/or “avant...
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- Length: 58:30
Today a footnote in a history full, mostly, of Italian, German and French names, there were Latin American composers that were considered mega-star...
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- Length: 58:29
During the golden age of Hollywood, countries like Mexico, Brazil and Argentina also developed their own healthy movie industries. Smaller nations ...
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The improvement of the relationship between Cuba and the US has attracted new attention toward everything related to the island. Fiesta revisits th...
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- Length: 58:29
This hour we will feature three 20th century composers from Catalonia: Xavier Montsalvatge, Federico Mompou and Leonardo Balada.
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- Length: 58:30
Since the 1920’s Argentine and Uruguayan composers have been using tango as a tool for breaking the wall between popular and classical music. Tango...
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- Length: 58:29