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SUMMARY:Santa Cecilia Orchestra Presents Baroque Meets Brazil
DESCRIPTION:Santa Cecilia Orchestra, an orchestra with a special missi
 on to serve the Latino community, will perform under the baton of the 
 orchestra’s music director and conductor, <b>Sonia Marie De Léon de
  Vega</b>, on February 21, 2010. Music of Vivaldi, Bach and Villa-Lobo
 s will be performed in the acoustically superb Thorne Hall, on the cam
 pus of Occidental College in Eagle Rock.\n\nThe three composers repres
 ented on this concert might seem, on first consideration, a diverse an
 d unrelated group. After all, they hail from three very different coun
 tries, and their lives span most of three centuries. Yet Antonio Vival
 di, J. S. Bach, and Heitor Villa-Lobos have much in common and are lin
 ked by strong lines of influence. Vivaldi’s music made a great impre
 ssion on Bach and greatly affected his compositing during the early ei
 ghteenth century. Over two hundred years later, Bach’s music exerted
  a similar influence on Villa-Lobos.\n\nThe Venetian composer Antonio 
 Vivaldi was astonishingly prolific, producing nearly 500 concertos fea
 turing practically every instrument in use during his lifetime. Concer
 ti performed on this program will include the Lute Concerto in D major
 , Michel Kudirka, soloist, Flute Concerto Op. 10 No. 3 in D major “I
 l Cardellino”, soloist Salpy Kerkonian and Concerto for 4 violins Op
  3. No. 10 in b minor, soloists: Melissa Phelps, Yi-Huan Zhao, Andrew 
 McIntosh, and Andrew Tholl.\n\nBrazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos i
 s one of the most original and celebrated South American composers of 
 all time. He helped Brazilian music to become loved throughout the wor
 ld, and is best known for absorbing the uniquely colorful sounds of hi
 s country into his great work. He was born on March 5, 1887 in Rio de 
 Janeiro, where he grew up listening to the unique music of Brazil. In 
 his town, he was accustomed to hearing country folk guitarists, and be
 came captivated by the dance music played in the streets for parties a
 nd festivals. He composed his Bachianas Brasileiras, a cycle of nine p
 ieces in total, from 1930-1945. They display a new aesthetic for the c
 omposer, more nationalistic and less revolutionary. Each has a Romanti
 c spirit, mixing Brazilian folk music and Bach’s composition techniq
 ues of counterpoint.\n\nSanta Cecilia Orchestra will perform Bachianas
  Brasileiras no. 5 and no. 9, scored for string orchestra. These piece
 s combine a distinctly Brazilian flavor with contrapuntal textures and
  harmonic patterns inspired by the works of Bach. The result is a rema
 rkable fusion of the musical spirits of the Old and New Worlds, of Eur
 opean composition at its most highly developed and Latin lyricism at i
 ts most directly appealing.\n\n<b>Sonia Marie De Léon de Vega</b>, no
 ted symphony and opera conductor has achieved distinction as a creativ
 e and consummate musician, as a woman in a groundbreaking career role,
  and as a leading influence in the growing Latino culture in the Unite
 d States. Her musical talents have inspired a large following in South
 ern California through live orchestral presentations, as well as an in
 ternational audience through televised performances in the United Stat
 es, Latin America and Europe. She was the first woman in history to re
 ceive a Vatican invitation to conduct a symphony orchestra at a Papal 
 Mass.\n\nThe concert will take place at Occidental College’s Thorne 
 Hall, 1600 Campus Rd., Los Angeles on February 21, 2010 at 4 o’clock
  in the afternoon. There will be one performance only of this program.
  Tickets priced at $26, $20 and $7 (youth 17 and under) are available 
 by calling the Santa Cecilia Orchestra office at (323) 259-3011 or log
 ging on to scorchestra.org.\n\nFor more information visit http://www.m
 ylatinitas.com/events/santa-cecilia-orchestra
DTSTART;TZID=America/Dawson_Creek:20100221T160000
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CATEGORIES:orchestra, concert
LOCATION:Occidental College, Thorne Hall
WEBSITE:http://scorchestra.org
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