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For this concert at the Americas Society, Sospeso randomly chose two of the forty million inhabitants of the twenty-three provinces that stretch from the Bolivian border to Antarctica: the Republica Argentina. The lucky winners of this lottery -- Mario Davidovsky and María Cecilia Villanueva -- happen to be two of the country's outstanding musicians: a happy coincidence, since Sospeso is in the music business. Also featured on this concert is the celebrated Argentinian composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
Seriously, Osvaldo Golijov's contemporaries, María Cecilia Villanueva and Mario Davidovsky, who share his cultural heritage in different ways as well as his assimilation of Beethoven into their compositions, will explore, through discussion and performance, the processes through which they create their own musical traditions. The concert will include Beethoven's Quartets opp. 127 and 132, as well as the responses by the two contemporary composers, including the New York premiere of Villanueva's Retrato del pasado and Davidovsky's Danke aus 132.
This
concert is made possible with a generous grant from the Citigroup Foundation, as well as many other contributors.
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