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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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This hour we will feature three 20th century composers from Catalonia: Xavier Montsalvatge, Federico Mompou and Leonardo Balada.

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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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Premiered at La Scala Theater in Milan in May of 1870 under the its Italian title of Il Guarany, this opera by Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Go...

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Elbio welcomes friend and fellow Uruguayan Carlos Kalmar to our WFMT studio to talk about his orchestras and life as a conductor.

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Let’s pretend that you go to your local orchestra hall and instead of the usual concert menu, you get to listen to a 19th century overture by Braz...

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During the last century a huge number of Western composers took a direction that divorced them from their potential audiences and entrenched them i...

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The Newberry Consort has been focusing on Early music from Spain and New Spain (as present day Mexico was known when it was a part of the Spanish e...

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The sonata is a musical term in use for almost four centuries. Latin American composers have also cultivated this venerable form. Fiesta! features ...

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The anthems of most of the Latin American countries were composed in the 19th century under the influence of both recent war and Italian opera. The...

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Euzkadi, also known as the Basque country, represents one of the several ways of being a Spaniard or is it something else? It depends on whom you ...

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Argentine born and based in New York, Veronica Loiacono, is a soprano of amazing versatility who feels at home in the opera repertoire as well as i...

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The author of the very popular Huapango, considered as the second Mexican anthem, composed several symphonic, chamber pieces of great importance. F...

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“The Vision of the Vanquished” or “La voz de los vencidos”, a book by Mexican historian Miguel León Portilla was very instrumental in changing the ...

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Caption: Anthony Lucero, San Francisco, CA  9/4/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Anthony Lucero talks bucking trends, sushi as a metaphor, and respecting the rice.

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