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Northwest Vocal Arts Spring Concert Cordillera: Range of the Americas March 16
Northwest Vocal Arts will present its spring concert, Cordillera: Range of the Americas, on March 16 at Rose City Park United Methodist Church, 5830 NE Alameda Street in Portland. The concert begins at 3:00 pm. The concert will feature the NWVA professional chamber choir and the NWVA youth choir performing works in Spanish, Latin and Quechua and celebrating the incredible variety of sounds and rhythms from the Caribbean and South America.
The centerpiece of the concert will be Misa Criolla by Ariel Ramírez . This ground-breaking work, beloved by audiences worldwide, was composed in 1964 (with text in Spanish instead of the traditional Latin and scored for traditional instruments) and based on Argentinian folk genres such as chacarera and carnavalito. Ramírez’s most famous work, it brought the composer international recognition and is “widely regarded as a stunning artistic achievement,” according to the Washington Post. An ensemble of folk instruments will accompany the piece.
Other highlights will include works by contemporary composers such as Guido Lopez Gavilan, whose piece El Guayaboso (The Liar) is based on the guaguancó (a subgenre of Cuban rumba) and Hanacpachap cussicuinin, by Juan Perez de Bocanegra, a processional hymn in the Quechua language and the earliest work of vocal polyphony printed in the western hemisphere.
Event Links
Website: https://go.evvnt.com/2885861-0
Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/2885861-1
