Latinas inFusion (CD Release)
In this concert La Donna Musicale (historical women composers) and Rumbarroco (Latin–Baroque Fusion) ensembles join forces to perform musical passages that create unexpected journeys through time, full of coincidences and surprises.
With unique creative audacity, they venture to bring early European music together with popular and folkloric Latin American music. The result is a magical and unprecedented cornucopia of women composers, arrangers, and lyricists, including sixteenth-century Ibero-American “Cancioneros” infused with Latin rhythms, as well as recent compositions performed with instruments and techniques from the past.
The vitality of Latin American rhythms ties together the different times and geographies in this concert. The works of the creators and brave women of the past, the Mexicans Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Consuelo Velázquez, Cuban Isolina Carrillo, the German polymath Hildegard von Bingen, and the Americans Marjorie Goetschius and Edna Osser, come to life in the rhythms of the joropos, landó, bachata, and bolero, some by way of contemporary composers from Puerto Rico and Venezuela.
This concert is a celebration of the rich manifestations of the feminine: the mystical embodiment of the Virgin, the mother, disruptive women, heroic women, and romantic love.
PERFORMERS
Daniela Tošić, Rosie Osser, voices; Job Salazar, violin; Fabiola Mendez, Puerto Rican cuatro; Diane Heffner, winds; Maurizio Fiore, Venezuelan cuatro; Kirsten Lamb, bass; Kera Washington, percussion; Eduardo Betancourt, harp; and Laury Gutiérrez, viola da gamba & guitars.
WHEN
November 17, Wednesday, 4 pm
WHERE
Gorden Chapel, Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
Image Credit: Photograph: Sierra, Villegas