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."

4/11

Aura, A Mexican Opera by Mario Lavista: Aura, based on the novel by Carlos Fuenes, is set to music in a surrealistic score by Mexican composer, Mario Lavista. Host, Elbio Barilari will guide you through this rarely heard 20th century opera.

 

4/18

Guitar Music from Spain, Brazil and Mexico: Guitar music is both a popular and classical genre of Spanish and Latin American music. Today we’ll showcase compositions for the guitar by Spanish composer, Joaquin Turina; Brazilian composer, Almeida Prado; and Mexican composer, Manuel Ponce.