On Friday November 18 the Band will be performing in a concert presented by the Chicago Latino Music Festival at the Art Institute of Chicago. This will be the Band’s fourth year appearing in the CLMF and it has been an interesting collaboration exploring and discovering music written in South American countries more than 300 years ago.
This year we’ll be presenting music from Mexico and Bolivia – maybe one day soon we’ll get to perform the music in these countries too?
As well as music from Bolivia the concert will feature instrumental music from eighteenth-century New Spain(México). At the time, New Spain’s elite musical culture centered on the church rather than on courts or aristocratic palaces, and as such, most surviving manuscripts consist of vocal music for religious services. There is however a small cache of symphonies. The music doesn’t sound typically “Mexican” but is in the European Galant style. It does however show the quality of the European elements of New Spanish culture at the time.
And for the curious among you here is a sample. A sinfonia by Mison.
Misón (c1720-1766), a Catalan composer known for his flute sonatas, exemplifies the galant style as received by Spaniards and exported to theAmericas.
Enjoy, and we hope to see you Friday. Click here to find full program details
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