Wednesday, December 4, 2013
12:10–1pm
Location: Arts Building Performance Lab, ARTS 166
Latin American Music in Concert
In collaboration with the Center for Ideas and Society
Paulo-de-Tarso Salles (Brazil), guitar
Special guests:
Daniel Castro, guitar
Caitlin St. John, harpsichord
UCR String Quintet
Ruth Charloff, conductor
PROGRAM
João Pernambuco (1883-1947)
Sons de Carrilhões
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Choros no. 1
Prelude no. 1
Paulo-de-Tarso Salles (1966-)
From the 14 Miniatures (1992):
Favorita
Choro pro Toniquinho
Quadrilha
Rio Acima
Antonio Carlos Jobim (1927-1994),
arrangement for two guitars by PT Salles
Eu te Amo
Luiza
Jaime Romero (1966-)
Delirio y Fuga
Embrujo de Luna (Pasillo)
Manuel Ponce (1882-1948)
Sonata for guitar and harpsichord, 2nd movement: Andantino
Antonio Carlos Jobim,
arrangement for guitar and string orchestra by PT Salles
Águas de Março (Waters from March)
Paulo-de-Tarso Salles
For me music is one of the most powerful ways of experiencing life. For the last twelve years, after retiring from the stage, I have been composing, teaching researching and writing at the University of São Paulo. I am pleased to be spending my sabbatical at the University of California, Riverside, where I am finishing a new book on Villa-Lobos’s string quartets. But the lovely atmosphere in Riverside made me feel close to the guitar, contemplating these beautiful mountains, the bright blue sky, the awesome moonlight…
It is a privilege to share with you my fondness for Latin America music. I grew up listening to great choro players like João Pernambuco. I selected some of my compositions from the 1990s, which pay tribute to the choro and to the Brazilian northeastern baião-style. Villa-Lobos composed several works for guitar, which took part in my education as a musician. The Prelude no. 1 is a sort of reference to the candomblé ritual, with its solemn melody played
in the low register of the guitar and the percussive chords on top. Jaime Romero is a Colombian composer whom I met through Daniel Castro, a graduate student at UCR and a passionate guitarist. Manuel Ponce is an elegant Mexican composer whose Sonata for Guitar and Harpsichord I will have the pleasure to play with Caitlin St. John, Head of the Music Library and a open-minded musician who helped me a lot with my book,reviewing my text with extreme competence. Antonio Carlos Jobim, one of the creators of Bossa Nova, is another important reference, and I hope you enjoy the arrangements that I made for three of his songs. It has been a real gift to be able to play this music with Daniel, and also with the conducting of Ruth Charloff and the marvelous UCR String Quintet.
Free and open to the public
