“Modern urban popular music has been particularly affected by this wellspring of Afro-American creativity,” says music director Carmen Helena Téllez, who is also director of the Latin American Music Center at the Indiana University School of Music. “In Latin America, the influence emanated primarily from Cuba, an island that remained under Spanish rule until 1898, but whose music has been a model for the development of many Latin American regional musical styles as unique variations of European genres since the 19th century.” The evening’s performance will include “El Laberinto Mágico,” an experimental exploration of sound and space by Cuban-born Aurelio de la Vega and his “Variación del Recuerdo” in a version newly arranged for Aguavá’s virtuoso voices and instruments. De la Vega is celebrating his 80th birthday this year.
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