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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 available for the first time.
Our Recuerdos series takes a brief hiatus as we dedicate this week and focus our En Casa series on talented musicians from Chile.
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.
En Casa this week is dedicated to the music of Chile. These videos were selected by musicologist Juan Pablo González, who has been studying (and occasionally performing) the music of his country for decades. Juan Pablo is currently the director of the master’s program in Latin American Musicology at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago, where he also resides. He has been a pioneer in the musicological study of 20th century popular music in Chile, creating undergraduate and graduate programs at different Chilean universities while regularly teaching graduate seminars in Spain and Latin America. His most recent publication, Thinking about music from Latin America (Lexington Books, 2018) has won praise by summarizing a century of musical thinking across a continent, assessing the current state of multidisciplinary music scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, and suggesting a host of new topics, questions, and ideas to challenge readers to think about and listen to music from Latin America in new ways.
Monday, August 10, 10 a.m.
En Casa: Chicoria Sánchez
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Chilean composer and guitarist Juan Antonio “Chicoria” Sánchez was born in 1965. He studied music at the University of Chile and guitar with Oscar Ohlsen, and attended composition courses with Leo Maslíah and Egberto Gismonti. His compositions for guitar are part of the repertoire of prominent guitarists throughout the world. He is the author of “Sonata homenaje a Violeta Parra”, “Suite Víctor Jara,” among others. He has recorded several solo albums, as well as a guitar method, a collection of guitar pieces "Piezas esenciales para guitarra" (2002) and “Chicoria, divagaciones desde la música latinoamericana” (2018), which includes texts, reflections, and stories about his life. He has received numerous awards in Chile and currently teaches at the Universidad de Chile and the Instituto Profesional Escuela Moderna de Música. He is a member of Entrama, Intibus Trío, among others. From his home in Santiago, he sent us an intimate rendition of his “Tonada por despedida," which he composed in 1999.