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Fátima Abramo. (Image via Americas Society video)
Overview
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, some for the first time.
This week we share the first group of compositions created during the online music project Jeporeka, generated by our friend Berta Rojas, in support of Paraguayan music. The virtual musical meetings took place from May to July, and offered ten young Paraguayan musicians the opportunity to work on their compositions and arrangements with Popi Spatocco, Carlos “Negro” Aguirre, and Pinchi Cardozo Ocampo. The fellows attended six days of seminars, presentations, and individual classes. The result of this project was the creation of “Pytû mimbi” (Light in the Darkness), a collection of ten brief pieces that were professionally recorded in Asunción. Each composer described their work in prose.
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Monday, October 5, 10 a.m.
En Casa: José Cabrera
"Kunu'ũ renda"
Cabrera writes,
Because I carry your rivers in my blood and your red earth accompanies my walk.
Today fate finds me returning to you, to your landscapes and your reseda fragrances.