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Elbio shares many of the delightful choral works of Latin America. We will hear music ranging from Baroque to Modern. Included this week is Blas Ga...
- Added: Sep 20, 2024
- Length: 58:30
Leopoldo Américo Miguez was a Brazilian composer born in Niterói. He was known as a champion of the music of Richard Wagner and directed the Instit...
- Added: Sep 10, 2024
- Length: 58:30
Fiesta presents an imaginary concert featuring an overture by Spanish-Mexican composer José María Cheavez, an orchestral suite from Brazilian Alber...
- Added: Sep 04, 2024
- Length: 58:30
Latin American composers from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries have developed an amazing and beautiful catalog. Fiesta presents a selection of so...
- Added: Aug 26, 2024
- Length: 58:30
Claudio Santoro (1919‐1989) was a prominent Brazilian composer and educator from the generation after Heitor Villa‐Lobos. Santoro combines amazing ...
- Added: Aug 20, 2024
- Length: 58:30
Edison Quintana is acknowledged as one the most versatile and consummate pianists currently performing in concert halls in Mexico. Whether in jazz ...
- Added: Aug 20, 2024
- Length: 58:30
Composer, pianist, and conductor, Luis Gianneo is acknowledged as one of the leading Argentine composers of the 20th century. He composed nearly 10...
- Added: Aug 06, 2024
- Length: 58:30
Fiesta presents orchestral music by composers from different regions of Spain: Andrés Gaos from Galicia, Joaquín Turina from Andalusia, Eduard Told...
- Added: Jul 30, 2024
- Length: 58:30
Argentinean Florencio Asenjo came to the US in 1958 to work as a mathematician at Georgetown University. He was at the cutting edge of mathematical...
- Added: Jul 23, 2024
- Length: 58:30
A prolific 20th-century composer, Joly Braga Santos who wrote three operas, chamber music for a wide variety of instruments and ensembles, film sco...
- Added: Jul 17, 2024
- Length: 58:30
Ricardo Castro was a late nineteenth-century romantic composer. Throughout the course of his life, Castro toured and taught everywhere from New Yor...
- Added: Jul 09, 2024
- Length: 58:30
In the 1930’s Spanish-Mexican composer, Rodolfo Halffter was a member of the Spanish “Group of the Eight”, a group of composers and musicologists w...
- Added: Jun 26, 2024
- Length: 58:30
Tomás Luis de Victoria is considered one of the top European composers of the 16th century. His music shows a remarkable sense of tonal contrast, f...
- Added: Jun 25, 2024
- Length: 58:30
Brazilian composers and pianists have established a long, solid, and brilliant tradition; Fiesta revisits the fascinating world of Brazilian piano ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 58:30
Uruguayan guitarist, teacher, and composer Abel Carlevaro is known as the founder of his own school of guitar technique. He was also a master compo...
- Added: Jun 12, 2024
- Length: 58:30
Classical music in the 20th and 21st centuries has had a strong presence throughout Latin America and the world. On this program, we will share in...
- Added: Jun 04, 2024
- Length: 58:30
The prestigious Kronos Quartet has dedicated many recordings to the music of Latin America. Host Elbio Barilari will share some of his favorite rec...
- Added: May 29, 2024
- Length: 58:31
A powerhouse of Latin American classical music, Argentina boasts some of the most skilled composers of the 20th century. We’ll hear gorgeous and me...
- Added: May 23, 2024
- Length: 58:30
One of the founders of “new tango,” Astor Piazzolla was trained as a classical composer. He studied with Alberto Ginastera and Nadia Boulanger amon...
- Added: May 15, 2024
- Length: 58:30
Brazil has some of the largest archives of music from the colonial period in the Americas. Thousands of churches performed live music every week an...
- Added: May 08, 2024
- Length: 58:30
Fiesta celebrates the legacy of the great Spanish pianist Alicia de Larrocha. We will share some of her own compositions as well as works by Manuel...
- Added: Apr 30, 2024
- Length: 58:30
Guitarist and composer Ernesto Cordero was born in New York in 1946. He studied in Puerto Rico, Spain, Italy, and the U.S., and has become one of t...
- Added: Apr 25, 2024
- Length: 58:30
Fiesta presents a full concert of Mexican music by composers from three different generations. We’ll hear Candelario Huízar’s Imágenes, Carlos Cháv...
- Added: Apr 16, 2024
- Length: 58:30
Since the 1920’s classical composers from Argentina and Uruguay drew inspiration from tango music, an urban genre developed in the twin cities acro...
- Added: Apr 10, 2024
- Length: 58:30
Fiesta features a treasure of Spanish music from the 12th to the 18th century including the mysterious “Codex Calixtinus”.
- Added: Apr 02, 2024
- Length: 58:30