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."

7/18

Peruvian composer, Celso Garrido-Lecca: Today we will learn about the life of Peruvian composer Celso Garrido-Lecca, who studied with Aaron Copland. We will also hear his double string quartet and bass work “Antaras”. 

 

7/25

Baroque to Classical in Brazil: Today Fiesta presents music composed in Brazil during the 18th and 19th centuries by composers Luis Alvares Pinto, Jose Mauricio Nunes García and Sigismund von Neukomm. 

 

8/1

The Turinas, A Family Affair: The well-known Spanish composer, Joaquin Turina is the grandfather of composer Jose Luis Turina. Today Fiesta presents music from these two generations of the Turina family.