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."

2/21

Composers from Spain and Portugal: Fiesta introduces rarely heard pieces by Spanish and Portuguese composers from the Baroque and early Classical periods including Manuel Canales, Vicente Baset and Joao de Souza Carvalho.

 

2/28

Mexican Soundscapes: For today's program Fiesta presents orchestral works inspired by the landscapes of Mexico and the Mexican people including music by Jose Pablo Moncayo and Candelario Huízar.