Fiesta

SATURDAYS @ 10PM

Fiesta is devoted to Latino concert music and presents artistically significant compositions from Latin America, Spain and Portugal to listeners. The creative force behind this series is Elbio Barilari, an acclaimed composer, musician, performer and professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The Uruguayan-born Barilari says, "Fiesta features the hottest Latin-American music from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries."

3/16

South American Road Trip: Fiesta's host, composer Elbio Barilari, will share some of his favorite composers in a trip through South America; included are Astor Piazzola's Libertango, Agustin Barrios's Danza Paraguaya, and Eduardo Fabini's guitar work El poncho, performed by Abel Carlevaro.

 

3/23

Two Major Works from Brazil and Argentina: In this program Fiesta showcases two monumental pieces from the Latin American repertoire: a piano quintet by Argentine composer, Constantino Gaito and a piano concerto by Brazilian composer, Francisco Mignone.