7:00 p.m.

El Museo del Barrio
1230 5th Ave
New York
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Carlos Chávez (Image: Carl van Vechten, 1937)

Pasatono: Orquesta Mexicana

Mixtec musician and researcher Rubén Luengas Pérez has reignited Carlos Chávez's ensemble of traditional indigenous and mestizo instruments.

 

7:00 p.m.

El Museo del Barrio
1230 5th Ave
New York
United States

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Carlos Chávez (Image: Carl van Vechten, 1937)

Overview

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In 1933, while head of the Fine Arts Department of México, Carlos Chávez (1899-1978) created the Orquesta Mexicana, an ensemble of traditional indigenous and mestizo instruments, which he conducted in 1940 as part of MoMA’s Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art exhibition. In 2013, Mixtec musician and researcher Rubén Luengas Pérez revived the Orquesta Mexicana with Orquesta Pasatono (Oaxaca).

Within Chávez’s composition Cantos de México, Pasatono discovered a unique set of rhythms, styles, and musical form in the context of an indigenous and mestizo instrumentation: sets of Zapotec chirimía from Oaxaca, traditional mariachi, banda, the ritual percussion of peoples in the Mexican northwest, and an abstraction of pre-Hispanic percussion. This program by Pasatono channels the diverse legacy of musical traditions embodied in the work of Carlos Chávez.

Program

Carlos Chávez Xochipilli Macuilxochitl, una música azteca immaginaria
Rubén Luengas Jarabe Ka'nu
C. Chávez Chapultepec (Obertura republicana)
Luis Sandí Yaqui Music
Enrico Chapela Danza de un poeta y el viento
C. Chávez Cantos de México
Blas Galindo Sones de Mariachi

 

Read reviews of Pasatono's 2014 album Maroma in a NPR First Listen feature and on PRI.

Read a recent New York Times piece on Carlos Chávez's work, a Wall Street Journal article on Chávez's legacy, and a New Yorker feature on Chávez's brand of Modernism.

Read a memo on the program issued by the MoMA in 1940.

This event is part of the "Modernismo Rumbero" series.

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