Music from Argentina & Brazil
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Can a continent be the star of a music program? If so, then South America reigns supreme in our first hour, as we hear music from Argentina and Brazil.
The guitar-playing brothers Sergio and Odair Assad play several Brazilian works by Egberto Gismonti and one by Marlos Nobre. Argentina’s Camerata Bariloche and flutist Claudio Barile offer Ginastera’s “Impresiones de la puna,” a sound portrait of that country’s landscape. Back to Brazil as Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony give us Villa-Lobos’s “Bachianas brasileiras” No. 9.
Alan Hovhaness said that “Lousadzak” is a “made-up Armenian word meaning, roughly, ‘dawn of light.’ The 1945 work for piano and orchestra touched off a near riot of excitement at its highly successful Boston premiere. We hope you will be equally enthusiastic as you listen to Keith Jarrett at the keyboard, complemented by the American Composers Orchestra under Dennis Russell Davies.
The Ensemble Wien-Berlin will play Czech music at the 92nd Street Y on April 16th and 17th, including Martinu’s Nonet, which we allow you to hear in advance this evening. But check out the Y’s website, and see if you wouldn’t like to hear them live performing other composers as well, including Dvorak, Janacek, Zemlinksy, and Reicha.
The guitar-playing brothers Sergio and Odair Assad play several Brazilian works by Egberto Gismonti and one by Marlos Nobre. Argentina’s Camerata Bariloche and flutist Claudio Barile offer Ginastera’s “Impresiones de la puna,” a sound portrait of that country’s landscape. Back to Brazil as Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony give us Villa-Lobos’s “Bachianas brasileiras” No. 9.
Alan Hovhaness said that “Lousadzak” is a “made-up Armenian word meaning, roughly, ‘dawn of light.’ The 1945 work for piano and orchestra touched off a near riot of excitement at its highly successful Boston premiere. We hope you will be equally enthusiastic as you listen to Keith Jarrett at the keyboard, complemented by the American Composers Orchestra under Dennis Russell Davies.
The Ensemble Wien-Berlin will play Czech music at the 92nd Street Y on April 16th and 17th, including Martinu’s Nonet, which we allow you to hear in advance this evening. But check out the Y’s website, and see if you wouldn’t like to hear them live performing other composers as well, including Dvorak, Janacek, Zemlinksy, and Reicha.
