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Magos Herrera (Courtesy of the artist.)
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.
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This week is Magos Herrera all week at Music of the Americas. The Mexican singer and composer (she just got a grant from CMA for a new jazz composition that we look forward to premiering in the future!) has been on our physical and virtual stages several times. This week's Recuerdos brings three new clips from the concert she put together to celebrate the memory of Argentinean superstar Mercedes Sosa in 2017 at National Sawdust. Magos designed the evening and invited Pedro Aznar and the Ed Simon Trio to share the stage in a program that revisited some of songs that Mercedes transformed into international hits.
For En Casa, we are delighted to present the premiere of a new collaboration of Magos, the string quartet Brooklyn Rider, and percussionist Mathias Kunzli, this time with a very special guest: multi Grammy-nominated Brazilian singer and composer Dori Caymmi. While we are at it, we also remember the first video of our earlier collaboration: Magos, Brooklyn Rider, Kunzli, and Mônica Salmaso performing the Uruguayan classic “A redoblar,” which we released in June.
Monday, September 14, 10 a.m.
Recuerdos: "A redoblar"
Facebook: Brooklyn Rider, Digital Island Studios, Kunzli, Magos, Olivera, Salmaso, Tillmann, Ubal, Zampol Productions
This song of hope by Rubén Olivera and Mauricio Ubal became an anthem of resistance in the bitter years of Uruguay's last dictatorship, in the 1970s. This collaboration between Magos, Brooklyn Rider, Mathias Kunzli, and Mônica Salmaso, which we launched in June, was the first of two videos directed by Adrien Tillmann that we set out to do as the pandemic started to upend all our lives. The second premieres later in the week.