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Uruguay isn't simply the home of one of the world's most stunning coastlines, stretching from Nueva Palmira on the Rio de la Plata past Montevideo on the South Atlantic. It's also among the earliest South American republics (it successfully secured its freedom from Brazil in 1825), and not even the Tupamaros, the violent Marxist gureilla movement of the sixties, could impede the country's seemingly inevitable destiny as one of the indisputed leaders of enlightened political, labor, economic, and cultural environments in the Americas.
Nestled comfortably between Argentina and Brazil (and who wouldn't want to be?), Uruguay is also home to some of the most gifted musical figures of the twentieth century. In this season's installment of its yearly concert American Voices, Sospeso performs music composed on the fertile soil of the Rio at a time that José Gurvich and other painters, musicians, and writers transformed El Taller Torres-García into a center for a revolutionary aesthetic search whose discoveries continue to inspire.
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concert marks the fortieth anniversary celebration of the Americas Society and is made possible with a generous grant from the Citigroup Foundation, as well as many other contributors. |
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lucy shelton soprano
bob ingliss oboe soloist
eric huebner piano soloist
michael adelson conductor
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