Cayambis Sinfonietta April 2023 Tour
Overview.
The Cayambis Sinfonietta, a national leader in the performance of the classical music of the Americas, is pleased to invite you to attend any one or all three of its performances during its first regional tour in April. The program, unlike that of any other US-based performance ensemble, is an exciting journey through some of the best instrumental music that the American hemisphere has to offer. The thirteen-member chamber orchestra, made up of some of the area’s finest musicians, is conducted by music director Dr. John L. Walker.
Each event is free and open to the public!
The Program.
Overture from the opera, Il Guarany..........................Antônio Carlos Gomes
Two Fragments after the Song of Roland....................Edward MacDowell
Cumandá (Final scene from Act IV)...........................Sixto María Durán
Excerpts from the ballet, La Doncella Ixquic..............Ricardo Castillo
O Garatuja...................................................................Alberto Nepomuceno
Pan-Americana: Morceau characteristique................Victor Herbert
El picacho abrupto.......................................................Juan Bautista Plaza
Reisado do Pastoreio, III, Batuque..............................Oscar Lorenzo Fernández
Huapango....................................................................José Pablo Moncayo
The Musicians.
Flute...........................................................................Elizabeth Lantz
Clarinet......................................................................Yevgeny Dokshansky
Bassoon......................................................................Zachary Millwood
Horn 1........................................................................Juan Berrios Rodríguez
Horn 2........................................................................John Glaeser
Percussion 1...............................................................Al Wojtera
Percussion 2...............................................................Miranda Hughes
Piano..........................................................................Matt Cataldi
Violin 1......................................................................Charley Shafer
Violin 2......................................................................Greg Childress
Viola..........................................................................Stanley Beckwith
Violoncello................................................................Lisa Liske
Contrabass.................................................................Katelyn Adams
The When and the Where.
Wednesday, April 12 at 7:30pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Blacksburg.
Thursday, April 13 at 7:00pm at the Carter Center for Worship and Music at Bridgewater College in Bridgewater.
Friday, April 14 at 7:30pm in the Davis Performance Hall of Radford University’s Covington Center.
The Cayambis Sinfonietta is the performance arm of the Cayambis Institute for Latin American Studies in Music (CILASiM), whose mission is to strengthen the awareness and appreciation of Latin American classical music by developing a full spectrum approach to its creation, performance and scholarship, and in so doing, cultivate bonds of goodwill and unity among the peoples of the Americas.
If you would like to help support our mission, please click here to make a tax free donation. Thank you!
Our tour is being generously supported by the A. & M. Blank Foundation, Virginia Humanities, and the Community Foundation of New River Valley. The Sinfonietta also receives support from a number of civic-minded individuals, as well as from many fine businesses in the New River Valley.
Our tour poster and program cover artwork was created by Gioconda Andrango. A big thank you to all!
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