Latin IS America
Latin IS America Festival 2015
An Arts and Culturally Blended Festival.
Latin IS America is a festival of musical, artistic and scholarly events that celebrates the blending of Latin American and U.S. cultures.
Performances and activities are sponsored by a grant from the MSU Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives and coordinted by the MSU College of Music.
2015 Festival Events:
Saturday, April 11, 8:00 p.m.
CONCERT
Women’s Chamber Ensemble and Women’s Glee Club
Music of the Americas explores tradition through well-loved songs and newly arranged choral works. Experience Latin American stories and musics from North and South America.
Sandra Snow, Meredith Bowen, Elizabeth Hermanson, and Brandon Williams, conductors
Fairchild Theatre, MSU Auditorium
Tickets: $10 adults, $8 seniors, students free
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Friday, April 17, 8:00 p.m.
CONCERT
Swing Dance, Jazz Orchestras I, II, III
Bobby and Roberto Carcassés, guest artists
Swing to the dynamic blend of Latin rhythms and big band sounds with Cuban vocalist and trumpeter Bobby Carcassés and his son, pianist Roberto Carcassés.
MSU Demonstration Hall Ballroom
Tickets: $10 adults, $8 seniors, students free
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Friday, April 24, 2:30 p.m.
LECTURE
Composing Across Borders, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon
Mexican-born and Pulitzer Prize finalist Zohn-Muldoon is this year’s Latin IS America guest composer. He will be on the MSU campus for the Musique 21 performance of two of his recent chamber works and for a public lecture about his career as a composer. Equally active in Mexico as he is in the U.S., Zohn-Muldoon is on the faculty at Eastman School of Music.
Room 245, Music Building
Free and open to the general public
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Saturday, April 25
CONCERT
Edmar Castañeda Trio
Edmar Castaneda is a virtuoso folk harpist hailing from Bogatá, Colombia. His one of a kind trio featuring Marshall Gilkes on trombone and David Sillman on drums creates an exciting and unique sound that has engaged audiences and received critical acclaim around the world!
Cook Recital Hall, Music Building at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets: $10 adults, $8 seniors, students free
Saturday, April 25
WORKSHOP
Edmar Castañeda Trio
The ensemble provides their perspectives on Columbian music and jazz and work with MSU College of Music students. Saturday, April 25, 3:00 p.m. Room 120, Music Building at 3:00 p.m. Free and open to the general public
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Monday, April 27, 7:30 p.m.
CONCERT
Musique 21
A Theatre of Music production featuring guest composer Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon. The concert will include poems in Spanish and English, both spoken and projected, about the nature of the ancient lineage of family connection through generations.
This light, this fire that devours,
this grey landscape that surrounds me,
this sorrow centered round one idea,
this anguish of sky, world and time.
this love
Kevin Noe, ensemble director; Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, guest composer
Fairchild Theatre, MSU Auditorium
Free and open to the public
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Tuesday, April 28, 8:00 a.m.
LECTURE
Cuban musicologist Miriam Escudero
Cuban musicologist Miriam Escudero returns to MSU in order to co-curate a Choral Union/University Chorale concert devoted to Latin American choral works that includes a 19th-century score she brought back to life. Dr. Escudero will offer a public lecture on her work as director of the "Esteban Salas" Musical Heritage Cabinet of the Havana City Historian Office.
Room 219, Music Practice Building
Free and open to the public
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Saturday, May 2, 8:00 p.m.
CONCERT
CONCERT: MSU Choirs, 200 Voices
Choral Union, University Chorale, State Singers, and Symphony Orchestra
Choral Union, University Chorale, and State Singers join the MSU Symphony Orchestra for a program that includes the earliest work published in Latin America, a mass from colonial Cuba, works by early 20th-century Brazilian composers, and a work by Aaron Copland, who was a great champion of Latin American works and composers.
David Rayl, conductor
Cobb Great Hall, Wharton Center
Tickets: $10 adults, $8 seniors, students free
