The Symphony of the Indigenous

Evening Music | May 6, 2010

Before he became one of the most important Mexican composers of the twentieth century, Carlos Chavez spearheaded projects to collect the folk music of the native people of Mexico. The sounds of one Native American tribe, the Yaqui, inspired what is considered to be his most popular work. Tonight we hear this piece, Chavez’s Symphony No. 2 (“Sinfonia India”). Also, music from Moondog (aka Louis Hardin) and Roumi Petrova.


Also Featured Tonight:

Charles Ives / Variations on "America"
John Adams / Shaker Loops
Johann Sebastian Bach / Art of the Fugue: Contrapunctus XIII
Ralph Vaughan Williams / The Lark Ascending
George Gershwin / Second Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra

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