Dancing Across Continents
Conductor: Carlos del Cueto
Date: Sunday 16th June 2024
Time: 2.30pm
Venue: Preston City Hall
Tickets
Tickets will be available at the door, but are also available online from Trybooking at the link below:
https://www.trybooking.com/CRUMG
Adults $25 / Concession $20 / Children 12 and under are free.
Please note that online tickets are only available until 11am on the 16th June.
The Music
Moncayo
Huapango
Villa-Lobos
Bachianas Brasileiras No.4
Beethoven
Symphony No.7
Carlos del Cueto
Preston Symphony Orchestra is delighted to welcome guest conductor Carlos del Cueto for this concert.
Carlos will be presenting the 3MBS-FM Daybreak program every second Monday in June between 6 and 9am. Tune into 103.5 FM or listen online at https://3mbs.org.au/
Read lots more about Carlos here !
Programme Notes
José Pablo Moncayo (1912 – 1958) was a Mexican pianist, percussionist, conductor and composer. His compositions express a Mexican nationalist spirit and include two symphonies, an opera, and a ballet. Much of his music used melodies, rhythms, and harmonies drawn from the folk music of Mexico. In 1941, he was asked to write an orchestral piece based on the popular music of the Veracruz area on the Gulf of Mexico. The result was Huapango, which contains elements of the Mexican folk dances El siquisirii, El balaju, and El avilan.
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959) has been described as “the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music”. He was a cellist, classical guitarist, and conductor who made his living from music in many ways – as a player in cinema orchestras and street bands, as a music educator and as a nationalist composer.
The Bachianas Brasileiras are a group of nine works written between 1930 and 1945 combining the compositional techniques of JS Bach with traditional music of Brazil. Bachianas Brasileiras no, 4 consists of 4 movements, each with two names, one suggestive of Bach’s time and one with a Brazilian connection:
– Preludio ‘Introdução’ (1941)
– Coral ‘Canto to Sertao’ (1941)
– Aria ‘Cantiga’ (1935)
– Dansa ‘Miudinho’ (1930)
Ludwig van Beethoven – everyone knows Beethoven. But we’ll add some notes about his Symphony no. 7. So come back here soon to read more!