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SONIDOS LATINOS - a celebration of latin american music
   
Caramoor Brings Sonidos Latinos to Yonkers and Peekskill
The lively, fun-filled Family Music Concert presented at last year's Music Festival is back and on the road!
Our Sonidos Latinos Family Concert is a celebration of the life, joy and vibrancy of Latin American music. Jamie Bernstein will be your guide on a musical journey through some of the glorious musical territory of South and Central America and the Caribbean. Marco Granados and Un Mundo Ensemble will delight us with the music, the instruments, the rhythms, and the costumes of Latin America.
You'll learn about the Venezuelan Joropo, the Afro-Venezuelan Quitiplas, the Brazilian Choro, The Caribbean Calypso, the Cuban Timba, and much more. In addition, you'll witness prodigy performers like the Pinderhughes children, who play and improvise like old masters of Latin Music.
Bring the entire family and be prepared to move, shake, dance and sing to our wonderful Sonidos Latinos!
May 17 Yonkers Untermyer Park, 945 North Broadway, at 3:00pm (admission is free).
May 18 Paramount Center for the Arts, 1008 Brown Street in Peekskill. Tickets are $5.00 and may be purchased by calling 877.840.0457.
Caramoor on the Radio
There will be a live broadcast on excerpts from last year's Sonidos Latinos concerts as well as interviews with the performers nationwide and locally on WNYC 93.9. Check our website for more details.
Sonidos Latinos is made possible by generous support from the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
Photos by Gabe Palacio Photography
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Last year Caramoor launched a new Latin American Music Initiative: Sonidos Latinos. This adventurous project spans two years and involved new compositions, Festival concerts, radio broadcasts and family outreach concerts throughout Westchester.
Caramoor's vision calls for bringing Latin American music, often under-represented in serious classical music venues, to a position of importance commensurate with the growing prominence and influence of Latin American culture in our society. The initiative explores indigenous musical traditions and contemporary trends while also expanding the genres through new compositions.
As part of Sonidos Latinos, Paquito D'Rivera has been named Caramoor's 2007-08 Composer-in-Residence. Marco Granados, a Venezuelan flute player and composer, serves as the project's Music Advisor. With their assistance and input, Caramoor will present eight Latin American-themed concerts over the next two seasons.
The 2007 Festival featured five concerts programmed as part of the initiative, each focusing on different aspects of Latin American music. Last summer, Sonidos Latinos showcased Venezuelan dance music, Latin American chamber music and orchestral works, Latin jazz and traditional instruments and music from Latin America in a concert for the whole family. These concerts were unique, exciting and only at Caramoor.
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JUNE 29
Sonidos Latinos I
Venetian Theater, 4:30pm
Tickets: $40.00, $32.50, $25.00, $17.50 order online more info
Vivica Genaux, mezzo-soprano; Max Barros, piano; Orchestra of St. Luke's;
Michael Barrett, conductor
Guarnieri Concertino for Piano and Chamber Orchestra
Revueltas Homenaje a Federico Garcia Lorca
De Falla El Amor Brujo (original 1915 version)
The passion, flair, and influence of Iberian concert music in the New World is re-explored in a program of rarely heard 20th century masterpieces. 2007 winner of the New York City Opera's Christopher Keene Award, mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux returns to Caramoor in the original 1915 version of Manuel de Falla's El Amor Brujo; a work perfect for her distinctive voice. Pianist Max Barros introduces the music of Brazilian composer Mozart Carmago Guarnieri, and Michael Barrett and the orchestra traverse Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas' striking homage to Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca.
JULY 6
Family Concert, Sonidos Latinos II
Venetian Theater, 4:30pm
Tickets: $15.00 order online
Jamie Bernstein, narrator; Marco Granados, flute; Sonidos Latinos Festival Ensemble
Jamie and Marco continue last summer's musical journey through Latin America, with a visit to Argentina and Uruguay and music and dance of the Tango. Bring the entire family to Caramoor for a thrilling trip. This program is appropriate for kids 6 and older.
JULY 6 Tickets: $15.00 order online
An age-appropiate parallel Program in the Reception Tent for children under 6.
JULY 13
Tango after Piazzolla - Sonidos Latinos III
Venetian Theater, 4:30pm
Tickets: $40.00, $32.50, $25.00, $17.50 order online more info
Camerata Latina: Paquito D'Rivera, clarinet; Marco Granados, flute; Pablo Aslan, bass; Emilio Solla, piano; Fernando Otero, piano; Nicolas Danielson, violin; Raul Jaurena, bandoneon; Ayano Kataoka, marimba
Sonidos Latinos heats up with an all Tango program. Regarded as the father of the modern Tango, which was well known only as a strikingly dramatic dance, Astor Piazzolla elevated and introduced its form and feeling into concert music. Buenos Aires Now explores how composers since have taken up Piazzolla's call. Caramoor's Composer-in-Residence Paquito D'Rivera and Sonidos Latinos favorite Marco Granados return with a star-studded cast of musicians deeply versed in this vibrant art form.
Introduce your family to Caramoor and enjoy the sounds of the concert from the picnic grounds. Purchase Concert Al Fresco tickets ($9.00).
Sonidos Latinos is made possible by generous support from the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
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AUGUST 2 Venetian Theater, All Day
Tickets: $65.00, $50.00, $35.00 order online more info
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| Elio Villafranca |
Chuchito Valdes |
Ricardo Peixoto
Claudia Villela |
3:00pm* Cuban Piano Summit - Elio Villafranca and Chuchito Valdes
4:15pm Mulgrew Miller's Wingspan
5:30pm* 50 Years of Bossa Nova - Ricardo Peixoto and Claudia Villela
Dinner Break
8:00pm Wynton Marsalis
This concert is sponsored, in part, by generous support from Wachovia Wealth Management.
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| Michel Camilo | AUGUST 3
Venetian Theater, All Day
Tickets: $45.00, $35.00 order online more info
3:00pm Aaron Diehl, piano
4:15pm Jimmy Heath Big Band
5:30pm* Michel CamiloTrio with Charles Flores and Dafnis Prieto
*Sonidos Latinos is made possible by generous support from the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
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