Fiesta!

Series produced by The WFMT Radio Network

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Fiesta! is an original production devoted to Latino concert music, and brings artistically significant compositions from Latin America, Spain and Portugal to your listeners.

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This series is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast through March 31, 2023. The program runs continuously year-round.

If you have any questions or require more information, please contact:
Estlin Usher at eusher@wfmt.com (p) 773-279-2112

Fiesta! is an original production devoted to Latino concert music, and brings artistically significant compositions from Latin America, Spain and Portugal to your listeners. The acclaimed composer, musician, performer, and professor Elbio Barilari is the host and creative force behind this series. He invites listeners to enjoy and learn about the lively and compelling sounds of Latin American classical music.

Fiesta! provides a valuable platform for the sound, culture, and history of classical music in Latin America. Barilari enriches our listeners by introducing them to a genre that does not typically receive much exposure. Fiesta! fosters an appreciation for Latin American classical music and creates a meeting place for listeners of diverse backgrounds.

“Fiesta!” says the Uruguayan-born composer Elbio Barilari, “features the hottest Latin-American music from the 16th to the 21st centuries.” Mr. Barilari, a faculty member of the University of Illinois at Chicago, is at the helm for this trip through the hidden pleasures of Latino concert music, including the magical rhythms of Silvestre Revueltas and Heitor Villa-Lobos and the power of symphonic tango. Plus, the series shares little-known treasures from the Latin-American Baroque, and celebrates classical guitar through the music of Agustin Barrios, Antonio Lauro, and Leo Brouwer.

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Please login to PRX.org to preview program audio.This series is available free of charge to all affiliate stations for one broadcast through March 31, 2023. The program runs continuously year-round. If you have any questions or require more information, please contact: Estlin Usher at eusher@wfmt.com (p) 773-279-2112Fiesta! is an original production devoted to Latino concert music, and brings artistically significant compositions from Latin America, Spain and Portugal to your listeners. The acclaimed composer, musician, performer, and professor Elbio Barilari is the host and creative force behind this series. He invites listeners to enjoy and learn about the lively and compelling sounds of Latin American classical music.Fiesta! provides a valuable platform for the sound, culture, and... Show full description


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53 Pieces

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Fiesta’s host, composer Elbio Barilari, will share some of his favorite composers in a delightful trip through South America. Included are Astor Pi...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
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Host Elbio Barilari shares some of his favorite long form classical works. Included are Manuel de Falla’s El amor brujo and Carlos Chávez’s Caballo...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
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Gaspar Cassadó i Moreu was born in Barcelona to a church musician father, Joaquim Cassadó, and began taking cello lessons at age seven. When he was...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
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From Chile to California, the Pacific coast of the Americas was a part of the old Spanish Empire. Still today, composers from Latin American and US...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
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Mexico has given the world many great composers. This program of Fiesta celebrates the many women composers who have made their musical mark on the...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
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Fiesta visits Cuba to share some of most important composers from the island. Included are Leo Brouwer’s Estudio Sencillo Nos. 1-2, Amadeo Roldán’s...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
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Inspiring, moving, and beautiful works by Latin American masters advocating for World Peace. Host Elbio Barilari will share works that will bring a...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
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Born in Barcelona in 1953, Gloria Villanueva began her first courses in music theory and piano at the age of nine. Later she started studying guita...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
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Mexican living composer Arturo Márquez has reached a high level of popularity due to the success of his orchestral work Danzón No.2. However, Artur...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
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The Brazilian Camargo Guarnieri was one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Though his music hasn’t been heard much outside of his count...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
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Music written and performed in Latin America during the Colonial period (16th to early 19th centuries) has become more popular in recent years. How...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
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From European traditions to the native cultures, choral music has always been a part of Latin America’s musical identity. Fiesta will highlight so...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
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As a priest and a professional composer working for the church, José Maurício Nunes Garcia wrote several pieces celebrating Christmas. And in this ...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
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This week, Fiesta takes you to an imaginary concert hall with a program featuring a late 18th century overture by Brazilian composer José Maurício ...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
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Fiesta features two passionate and romantic Latin American masterpieces from Argentina and Brazil. Constantino Gaito’s String Quartet No.1 and Fran...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
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Born in Buenos Aires in 1862, Alberto Williams was the first Argentine composer that reached international fame. Fiesta visits his symphonic and pi...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
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USA-born pianist Mac McClure developed a strong relationship with Catalonia and the Catalonian music scene. This week, Fiesta will feature a select...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
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There is a huge repertoire of Latin American symphonic and chamber music inspired by the indigenous American cultures. We will celebrate this inspi...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
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Tango was born around 1880 in Buenos Aires and Montevideo as dance music, but by the 1940ʼs, it was introduced to the concert hall. Since then, tan...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 58:30