Monday, November 18, 2024

Music of the Americas: 2018 Recuerdos

This week is dedicated to Recuerdos of concerts Americas Society produced in 2018 and a video of La Charo's concert in October 2024.

While En Casa takes a break this week, we return to a few Music of the Americas concerts from 2018, including Corónica and Ars Longa performing music from Ecuador and Bolivia, respectively, as well as Sofía Rei and Juancho Herrera revisiting a late-1960s cult hit by Jorge de la Vega.

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Recuerdos: Corónica

Tuesday, November 19, 10 am

In November 2018, Colombian scholar and performer Daniel Zuluaga led Corónica, an international collective of musicians, in "An Empire of Silver and Gold," a program of vocal and instrumental pieces from eighteenth-century Latin America. The program was a collaboration between Americas Society and Five Boroughs Music Festival and formed part of our annual GEMAS series dedicated to early music and musicians form the region.

We share their performance of "Atención a la fragua amorosa," written by an anonymous composer in Quito around the year 1700.

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Recuerdos: Jorge de la Vega

Wednesday, November 20, 10 am

In 2018, we commissioned two New York-based Latin American artists, Sofía Rei and Juancho Herrera, to recreate an album that became a cult hit of Argentine psychedelia: Jorge de la Vega's El gusanito en persona, released in 1968. They were joined by drummer Franco Pinna and bassist Bam Rodríguez on our stage in April of that year.

On November 20, we share their version of the album's titular song, "El gusanito en persona."

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Recuerdos: Ars Longa de La Habana

Thursday, November 21, 10 am

Americas Society has presented the groundbreaking Cuban ensemble's three U.S. tours since 2017. The program during their second visit in February 2018 included music by Esteban Salas, Kapellmeister in Santiago de Cuba in the early nineteenth century, alongside earlier pieces from Peru and the Bolivian Jesuit missions.

On November 21, we share Domenico Zipoli's "Zuipaquî," a Marian anthem in Chiquitano from the archives of the Bolivian missions.

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Funders

The MetLife Foundation Music of the Americas concert series is made possible by the generous support of Presenting Sponsor MetLife Foundation.

The Fall 2024 Music program is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, by the Howard Gilman Foundation, by the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, by the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, and by the Mex-Am Cultural Foundation.