ALMA Ensemble joint concert
BU’s Afro-Latin Music of the Americas (ALMA) Ensemble and Omnivorous Global Music Ensemble will be holding a joint concert Saturday April 29th at 1 pm.
The Global Music Ensemble, directed by Prof. Marié Abé performs unique interpretations & arrangements of musics from the world over, including Ethiopian jazz, Brazilian tropicalia, lost village songs from Chernobyl (Ukraine), folk tunes from Turkey, Macedonia, popular Romani song from Serbia, and free improvisation based on John Zorn’s game piece Cobra.
ALMA Ensemble, directed by Prof Michael Birenbaum Quintero, is dedicated to educating the BU community about the cultural legacy and social realities of the descendants of Africans in Latin America. ALMA performs a repertoire of Afro-Latin American secular and spiritual genres. This semester’s program includes music from Cuba, Peru, Puerto Rico, and two different regional traditions in Colombia.