Leonardo Balada: Composer
Leonardo Balada, born in Catalonia in 1933, currently teaching at the School of Music at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, is, for many, the most important living Spanish composer. Fiesta dedicates this program to his work and thinking.
LP Treasures: Louisville Orchestra Recordings
This week we dig through our old LPs and find rare and adventurous recordings made by the Louisville Orchestra of Blas Galindo, Joaquín Nin-Culmell, and Roberto Garcia Morillo.
Latin American and Spanish Piano
Heitor Villa-Lobos was such a dominant character in Brazilian music that other great composers from his generation or younger have been obscured by him. Francisco Mignone and Mozart Camargo Guarnieri were two brilliant composers younger than Villa-Lobo...
Colonial Music from Perú & Bolivia
Once one of the richest regions on Earth, the Vice-royalty of Perú was one of the key components of the Spanish Empire. Music started to be printed and published there, for the first time in this side of the Atlantic.
Memories from Sefarad
Sefarad is the name the Spanish Jews gave to Spain, hence their denomination as Sephardic people. Expelled from Spain alongside the Muslims, their culture, and their language, the Ladino, have been preserved in Northern Africa, Greece,
Smiles and Tears
Here we indulge in creative examples of wit and humor in Latino music, from a Jazz rendition of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto to a Latino version of Ravel’s Bolero. Then true to the Latino style after all the fun this program introduces the painfully se...
Latino Composers in the US
There is a rich history and a brilliant present of Latino composers in the US. Fiesta! continues presenting well-known and talented Latino composers working in the US. - Florencio Asenjo was a mathematician and composer born in Argentina in 1927.
Voices of Mexico: Past & Present
The Chicago Panamerican Ensemble has built a solid reputation over the years. The group, lead by pianist Beatriz Helguera and cellist Andrew Snow has a new double CD featuring the music of fourteen Mexican composers.
The Best of the 2015 Latino Music Festival Part 2
The Latino Music Festival celebrated this year its 10th anniversary with a spectacular program presented all across Chicago. Fiesta features a selection of these concerts.
Dear Maestro…
Tributes from one composer to another have been a favorite practice since the Renaissance. In this program Fiesta! showcases delightful works dedicated to Heitor Villa-Lobos, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Bela Bartok, among others.