In Person: May 23 | 7PM
Entre dos Álamos
The indigenous musicians of South America quickly adopted and mastered the new instruments and forms brought by Catholic colonists in the 16th century. Incorporating shawms, dulcians, and sackbuts into their own musical culture, they became proficient performers and composers in the European polyphonic style. Over the following two centuries, this musical cross-pollination produced a body of work unsurpassed in its magnificence.
Piffaro’s virtuosic multi-instrumentalists and a stellar cast of singers, including sopranos Nell Snaidas and Estelí Gomez, countertenor Jay Carter, tenor Jonatan Alvarado, and bass-baritone Andrew Padgett, bring this rarely heard repertory back to life in inimitable style.
Playlist: Music transported from Spain (Francisco Guerrero’s Beatus vir) and works created in South America (Gutiérrez Fernández Hidalgo’s Magnificat Quarti Toni); music written in indigenous languages (the anonymous Stabat Mater: Ane Nupaquîma suchetaña); selections from the codex compiled by Fray Gregorio de Zuola.
Tickets are free but registration is required.
This concert is presented by the MetLife Foundation Music of the Americas Concert Series and GEMAS, a project of Americas Society and Gotham Early Music Scene, directed by Nell Snaidas and Sebastian Zubieta.
Original support for these concerts has been provided by
