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This week and next we focus on the 2021 edition of the Paraguayan project dedicated to the art of songwriting.
The new music quartet returns with premieres by Taylor Brook and DM R.
The Argentine early music specialists explore sixteenth-century Guatemalan musical manuscripts.
Watch hundreds of original performances recorded from musicians' homes across the Americas during quarantine and beyond.
Claudio Ceccoli and Saúl Cosme return with new solo performances, Sofía Tosello and Franco Pinna perform a duo project, and we welcome Sarita Schena and Loli Molina.
Recuerdos takes us back to the 2012 concerts of Edmar Castañeda and the outdoor celebration of R. Murray Schafer in 2013.
En Casa with Pablo Rossi and a concert by Gustavo Casenave bookend the week, which also includes guitar music and Brazilian singer Jamile.
The award-winning Uruguayan pianist opens the 2021–2022 Music of the Americas season live.
The 2021 festival will celebrate the Argentine composers, whose music transformed tango.
The MetLife Foundation Music of the Americas Concert Series is made possible by the generous support of Presenting Sponsor MetLife Foundation.
The Fall 2021 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, and by the Howard Gilman Foundation.
Additional support comes from the New York State Council on the Arts, The Amphion Foundation, Inc., the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University.
