Music of the Americas: En Casa, April 13-17

April 13, 2020

L to R: M. Herrera, J. Jofre, S. Prat, G. Uribe, P. D'Rivera, J. Glem (Image: Roey Yohai Studios)

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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, some for the first time.

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Monday, April 13, 10 a.m.

Paquito D'Rivera and Friends

@PaquitoDRivera

New York-based Cuban clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera played the first Music of the Americas concert Music of the Americas Director Sebastián Zubieta curated, back in 2005, and he has returned to our stage on a few occasions. When Zubieta asked him to participate in En casa, he didn't expect that D'Rivera would gather a virtual clarinet trio with Juan Ruiz and Diana Álvarez and send us back a lovely version of Venezuelan composer Antonio Lauro's El niño.

En Casa: Paquito D'Rivera, Juan Ruiz, and Diana Álvarez - El niño Tuesday, April 14, 10 a.m. Magos Herrera <a href="https://twitter.com/magosherrera?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">@magosherrera  </a> Magos Herrera is a Mexican singer and composer based in New York who first performed in our 2016 series Valentine's concert alongside Javier Limón. She is a very versatile performer, and in 2019 released Dreamers, an album of classic Latin American popular songs in collaboration with the string quartet Brooklyn Rider (you can read Sebastián Zubieta's review of the album <a href="https://www.americasquarterly.org/FallPlaylist">here</a>). This week, she has included a previously unreleased video from that collaboration. <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="328" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cPAA9FxeONk" width="500" class="youtube-player"/> En Casa: Magos Herrera and Brooklyn Rider - Balderrama Wednesday, April 15, 10 a.m. Jorge Glem <a href="https://twitter.com/jorgeglem?lang=en">@jorgeglem</a> Jorge Glem is a Venezuelan wizard of the cuatro, a small guitar typical in that country's folk music. He is a member of the Grammy-winning C4 Trio, who have been touring their explosive take on Venezuelan music throughout the world since 2006. As a composer and cuatrista, he participates on several other exciting projects. His track for En casa is Pez volador, which he wrote in honor of Cumaná, his hometown on the eastern coast of Venezuela. Jorge would see flying fish jumping off the Caribbean waters and was inspired by their flight and by the freedom that these fish must do what the rest of their kind can't.  <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="328" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GayWKBubBzk" width="500" class="youtube-player"/> En Casa: Jorge Glem -  Pez volador Thursday, April 16, 10 a.m. Gregorio Uribe <a href="https://twitter.com/gregoriouribe?lang=en">@gregoriouribe</a> New York-based accordionist and composer Gregorio Uribe was born in Bogotá and has been creating seriously swinging music that fuses Colombian styles with jazz with his big band. For his En casa video, Gregorio recorded Media naranja. <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="328" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/S8-aQS34slk" width="500" class="youtube-player"/> En Casa: Gregorio Uribe - Media naranja Thursday, April 16, 6:30 p.m. Young opera singers <a href="https://twitter.com/favaro_oriana?lang=en">@favaro_oriana</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/santiagoballerinitenor/">@SantiagoBallerinitenor</a>; <a href="https://twitter.com/machado_flor?lang=en">@machado_flor</a> Since 2007, we have been presenting young singers from the Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón, the music academy of the famous Buenos Aires opera house. Each year, voice students participate in a competition that will select a group to travel to New York to perform in recitals, attend performances, and take lessons. This initiative is supported by Alejandro Cordero, a successful dermatologist who discovered a renewed love for opera later in life (but whose family has been involved in the theater since the early 19th century) and has reached hundreds of young singers. Many of the singers that appeared on our series have gone on to successful careers in Argentina and abroad, including Oriana Favaro,  Santiago Ballerini,  and Florencia Machado, who are featured in this week's video. <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="328" src=" https://www.youtube.com/embed/1P9HKh2Ww5M" width="500" class="youtube-player"/> Recuerdos: Highlights from 2018 ISATC with Burgardt, Olmedo, Arrieta, Fernandez and Ayub Friday, April 17, 10 a.m. João Luiz, guitar J. Pernambuco: Pó de mico We close the week with Brazilian guitarist, long-time friend and collaborator, João Luiz, who brings us Pó de mico by the Brazilian composer João Pernambuco.   <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="328" src=" https://www.youtube.com/embed/L_ua3InHYfo" width="500" class="youtube-player"/> En Casa: João Luiz, guitar – Pernambuco: Pó de mico

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Music of the Americas: En Casa, April 13–17

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