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."

6/20

A Latin American Concert: Fiesta invites you to enjoy a concert starting with a Spanish overture by Evaristo Fernandez Blanco, followed by a Brazilian guitar concerto by Radames Gnattalli, and a Mexican symphonic suite by Silvestre Revueltas.

 

6/27

Music from Colombia: On today's program we’ll hear Colombian music by guitarist, Gentil Montana, by a prominent women composer, Amparo Angel, and by 102-year-old composer, Luis Carlos Figueroa.