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Music of the Americas continues its online video series En Casa (At Home), featuring original daily performances with musicians from around the Americas, and Recuerdos (Memories), weekly releases of memorable past performances at the Americas Society.
This week, we have videos coming from Hong Kong (Michelle Wong and Lai Bo Ling), France (Ezequiel Spucches), and Mexico (Eunice Padilla), as well as one of the wonderful pieces included in Renato Borghetti Quartet's concert earlier this month.
Follow Music of the Americas on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to watch and receive notifications of all the performances. We also publish weekly calendars here on our website, including all the videos, so you can return to this page to catch up on any performances you might have missed.
Music of the Americas continues its online video series En Casa (At Home), featuring original daily performances with musicians from around the Americas, and Recuerdos (Memories), weekly releases of memorable past performances at the Americas Society.
This week, we have videos coming from Hong Kong (Michelle Wong and Lai Bo Ling), France (Ezequiel Spucches), and Mexico (Eunice Padilla), as well as one of the wonderful pieces included in Renato Borghetti Quartet's concert earlier this month.
Follow Music of the Americas on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to watch and receive notifications of all the performances. We also publish weekly calendars here on our website, including all the videos, so you can return to this page to catch up on any performances you might have missed.
Agenda
Tuesday, October 27, 10 a.m.
En Casa: Michelle Wong and Lai Bo Ling
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Michelle Wong is the adjunct English horn soloist at the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires, and an active performer in the city's musical scene. She made her concerto debut with the Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra at age fourteen and has since performed with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Strings, Hong Kong Wind Philharmonia, and the Macau Orchestra. She has been spending the pandemic with family in her native Hong Kong, where she also reconnected with longtime collaborator and friend, pianist Lai Bo Ling, who has performed across Asia, North America, and Europe. They sent us this version of Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise from Bo Ling's living room.
En Casa: Michelle Wong and Lai Bo Ling: Vocalise (Rachmaninoff)
Wednesday, October 28, 10 a.m.
En Casa: Ezequiel Spucches
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Born in La Paz in the province of Entre Ríos, Argentine pianist Ezequiel Spucches began his musical studies at an early age and received a scholarship to study at the Moscow Conservatory with Yuri Sliesarev. He subsequently won a grant for artists from UNESCO and settled in France, where he founded Ensamble Almaviva, a group that specializes in Latin American chamber music. It was with this ensemble that he appeared on our stage a few seasons ago, in Daniel D'Adamo's Kamchatka. He concertizes regularly in Europe and in Argentina and sent us this version of the first movement of Beethoven's Sonata Op. 109 from his home among photographs by Billy & Hells.
En Casa: Ezequiel Spucches - Piano Sonata No.30, Op.109 (Beethoven)
Thursday, October 29, 10 a.m.
En Casa: Eunice Padilla
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Mexican early keyboard specialist Eunice Padilla has performed as a recitalist and chamber musician in the Americas and Europe. She is a member of the early music group La Fontegara, which specializes in Latin American baroque instrumental music and appeared in our series in 2010. She studied in Mexico and received a master’s in harpsichord and fortepiano from the New England Conservatory of Music. Currently, Padilla teaches harpsichord and chamber music at the School of Music of the Universidad Autónoma Nacional de México in CDMX. She sent us two sets of pieces from the Cuaderno de Tonos de Maitines de Sor María Clara del Santísimo Sacramento, one of the few collections of organ music written in the Americas during colonial times. Sor María Clara was a nun living in Oaxaca at the beginning of the 19th century who compiled this Cuaderno of locally composed music (it is not clear whether she composed the pieces herself). This week we share the first set of pieces, which Padilla recorded at home in CDMX on a modern fortepiano by Paul McNulty.
En Casa: Eunice Padilla - Cuaderno de Tonos de Maitines
(de Sor María del Santísimo Sacramento)
Friday, October 30, 6 p.m.
Recuerdos: Renato Borghetti Quartet
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The Renato Borghetti Quartet made their Music of the Americas debut two weeks ago in a vibrant program featuring a contemporary and explosive mix of gaúcho musical styles mixed in with flamenco, Brazilian pop, and jazz. We’ve selected one of our favorites from this amazing concert.
Recuerdos: Renato Borghetti Quartet: Passo Fundo (Daniel Sá)
The MetLife Foundation Music of the Americas concert series is made possible by the generous support of Presenting Sponsor MetLife Foundation. The Fall 2020 Music program is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. The Renato Borghetti Quartet concert was supported by the Consulate General of Brazil in New York.
