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iConexiones! at Esperanza
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Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with music by Mexican Composers.
Orchestra 2001, conducted by Mark Loria, performing at Teatro Esperanza on May 5, 2019. Photo credit: Zamani Feelings

Esperanza Arts Center presents the streamed premiere of a new live audio recording featuring Orchestra 2001's iConexiones! performance from Cinco de Mayo 2019 at Teatro Esperanza spotlighting the music of Mexican composers. This program includes the world premiere of Transcending Walls by Francisco Cortés-Álvarez.

*For those who do not have Facebook, we will share the video on the Orchestra 2001 website after the online premier! Please check back. 
Clockwise from Top/Left: Photo by Zamani Feelings. Composer Francisco Cortés-Álvarez discusses his new commission for Orchestra 2001, Trascendiendo Muros (Transcending Walls). Murals on the Mexican side of the U.S./Mexico border wall served as inspiration for this masterful new work.

PROGRAM:

Orchestra 2001
Mark Loria, Conductor

Carlos Chávez – Xochipilli, An Imagined Aztec Music (1940)

Silvestre Revueltas – Ocho por Radio (1933)

Gabriela Ortiz – Ríos: Papaloapan (2012)

Francisco Cortés-Álvarez – Trascendiendo Muros (Transcending Walls) (2019)
Premiere, Steven R. Gerber Composer Residency and Commission

Want to learn more about the composers and their music? 
Visit the concert page.

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