A Musical Dispatch From Bogotá, With a Playlist To Match
AQ’s music columnist spent a week exploring Bogotá's Festival Internacional de Música Clásica and the city's vibrant music scene.
This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on COP 30 For more than a decade, Bogotá’s Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo has hosted its signature Festival Internacional de Música Clásica, a biannual, weeklong international celebration of classical music. In its seventh edition in April, nearly 300 musicians from the Americas and Europe performed works ranging from Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) classics to orchestral versions of popular music. Americas Society’s vocal ensemble participated with a piece by Canadian composer Claude Vivier, and I...
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