Aperio continues its 2024-2025 concert season with Tropical Latitudes, a concert celebrating the remarkable influences of Caribbean rhythm, poetry, and culture in contemporary music. Combining elements from a variety of musical styles - including bomba, salsa, samba, and tango - this exciting program sheds new light on the vibrant mix of culture, music, and history that distinguishes New World music from its European forebears. 

The performance begins with a set of piano solos by Gabriela Ortiz, Robert Berkman, and Scott Pender which employ the infectious rhythms of salsa and tango. Puerto Rican composer Christian Quiñones deconstructs the Afro-Caribbean bomba style - a genre traditionally improvised by drummers, singers, and dancers - in Loud Music for Quiet Places, his remarkable work for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano. Rhythmic elements also figure prominently in his string quartet Pasemisi-Pasemisa, which requires the players to employ body percussion and vocal techniques, while nodding to the influences of reggaetón, eighties music, hip-hop, and rock.

American composer Kevin Day presents a modern, experimental approach in his Ecstatic Samba written for flute, cello, and piano. The piece fluctuates between bouncing energy and more languid sections, reminiscent of changing moods prevalent in the music of Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla, whose perennial milonga Oblivion Day has also arranged in a new version for string quartet and soprano. 

The late Robert Avalon’s stunning Sextet to Julia de Burgos scored for soprano, winds, strings and piano rounds out this exhilarating program.                             

PROGRAM

• AVALON Sextet to Julia de Burgos
• BERKMAN Thorn-Torn Lips 
• DAY Ecstatic Samba
• ORTIZ Suy-Muy-Key
• PENDER Ms. Jackson Dances for the People 
• PIAZZOLLA (arr. DAY) Oblivion 
• QUIÑONES Loud Music for Quiet Places; Pasemisi-Pasemisa

SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2025, at 7:30 PM

RUNTIME:
95 minutes with 1 intermission

TICKETS: 
$35 Regular
$25 Seniors 65+
$15 Students

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