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Egberto Gismonti, Danilo Pérez, Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Chucho Valdés (Carnegie Hall)

Carnegie Hall, Program Notes / September 3, 2020

Pictured, clockwise: Chucho Valdés (bottom left) Egberto Gismonti, Danilo Pérez, Gonzalo Rubalcaba A few months ago, pianist Danilo Pérez explained that his composition “Bridge of Life” was about the theory of how the isthmus where his native Panama sits emerged millions of years ago, separating the oceans, yet also becoming a link between continents. “The …

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Old Sounds, New Voices: Ana Moura and Buika (Carnegie Hall)

Carnegie Hall, Essays, Program Notes / September 3, 2020

Singers Ana Moura, from Portugal, and Buika, from Spain, are two of the most distinctive voices in world pop. Each has taken an indigenous, popular genre—fado in the case of Moura, copla for Buika—mastered it, imprinted it with her own style, and used it as a point of departure for other explorations. Their searches have …

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Andalusian Voices Tempo of Light: Carmen Linares, Marina Heredia, and Arcángel (Carnegie Hall)

Carnegie Hall, Program Notes / August 24, 2020

Carmen Linares (pictured), Marina Heredia, and Arcángel With Miguel Ángel Cortés, Guitar José Quevedo “Bolita,” Guitar Paquito González, Percussion Ana Morales, Dancer Isidro Muñoz, Music Director Like the blues (its counterpart in the United States) flamenco was born out of need, as an expression of a desperately poor underclass struggling for survival in a place not …

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