Fiesta
Thursdays, 10 to 11pm on WXXO-FM 91.5, WXXY 90.3, WXXO-FM/HD1 and online at wxxiclassical.org
Fiesta! features the hottest Latin-American music from the 16th to the 21st centuries. Program host Elbio Barilari is your guide for this trip through the hidden treasures of Latino concert music, including the magical rhythms of Silvestre Revueltas and Heitor Villa-Lobos, or the symphonic tango; plus the series shares little-known wonders from the Latin-American Baroque and celebrates classical guitar through the music of Agustin Barrios, Antonio Lauro, Leo Brouwer, and more.
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Cantata Criolla, the best known work of Venezuelan Composer Antonio Estévez, is a choral work from 1954 is based on a long poem by the Venezuelan Albert Árvelo Torrealba that relates a singing competition between the Devil and Florentino, a sort of Everyman character from the high plains of Venezuela.
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Uruguayan composer and pianist Lamarque Pons' early compositions included works for piano, chamber and vocal works. As his composition style matured, he wrote in a more nationalist style, using popular melodies, such as tangos and milongas in his works that included operas and ballets in the mid to late 1950s and 1960s. -
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Born in Buenos Aires in April 1916, Alberto Ginastera has been referred to as an Argentinian Stravinsky, Bartok, Falla, Debussy and Villa-Lobos. He also has taken inspiration from Copland after coming to the U.S. We'll hear these inspirations woven seamlessly on Fiesta.
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Expelled from Spain, the culture, language and music of Sephardic Jews or Ladinos, long associated with the Iberian Peninsula, has been preserved in Northern Africa, Greece, Turkey and the Netherlands.
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The Cláudio Santoro National Theater takes its name from a famous Brazilian composer, conductor and violinist, and was designed by renowned architect Oscar Niemeyer.
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Piano concertos by Mexican Manuel Ponce and the Brazilian Almeida Prado are featured this week on Fiesta.
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Indisputably the most powerful Mexican artistic figure, musical or otherwise, of his time, we'll hear the music of Carlos Chávez (1899-1978) on the Oct 13th broadcast at 10pm.
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With a passionate devotion to unearthing new South American repertoire, conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya is the founder and Artistic Director of Caminos del Inka, a non-profit organization dedicated to championing South American composers. In addition, Harth-Bedoya is working with cellist Yo-Yo Ma on New Impossibilities, a wondrous fusion of Western and Eastern musical impulses and sensibilities. We'll learn more about this on 9/8 at 10pm.
