THE ARAKAENDAR CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA presents baroque music from the Jesuit missions of Bolivia.
FREE and open to the public. (ages 8 and up)
Monday, March 2, 2015 at 6:30 p.m. (pre-concert talk at 6:00)
Conducted by Ashley Solomon, pre-concert talk by Father Piotr Nawrot.
A great legacy of 7,000 musical scores was preserved for centuries by native musicians in the Jesuit missions of Chiquitos in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, an area declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Polish musicologist Father Piotr Nawrot brought them to light and founded the International Festival of Renaissance and Baroque Music of Bolivia. He began a collaborative partnership with Ashley Solomon, Artistic Director of Florilegium in the UK, and the Arakaendar Choir debuted in 2006.
Comprising 27 singers and musicians, the group performs the classical Baroque in Latin, as well as in their native dialects, and has toured widely in Bolivia, the UK and Europe.
Enrique V. Iglesias Auditorium, Inter-American Development Bank, 1330 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC, Metro Center. Photo ID required. 202.623.1410
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