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."

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Island Hopping: Host, Elbio Barilari takes you on a musical trip to the many islands in Latin America and Spain. We will visit the Canary Islands, Puerto Rico, and Cuba.

 

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Latino Composers in the US: There is a rich history of Latino composers in the United States. Today, Fiesta presents music by two of these special composers, Roberto Sierra and Lena Frank.