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TCU Latin American Music Festival was on campus Oct. 11-13



Cellist Jesús Castro-Balbi is one of many performers during the TCU Latin American Music Festival this week.

Fort Worth, TX

10/9/2007

For the first time since its inception in 1998, the TCU Latin American Music Festival will be held during the fall rather than in spring. This transition was prompted by the Festival’s obvious connection to the city of Fort Worth’s longstanding annual celebration of Hispanic culture. Dates for this year’s event are Oct. 11-13.

Germán Gutiérrez, director of orchestral studies at TCU and LAMF founder, has kept the uniqueness of the TCU Latin American Music Festival by focusing primarily on the Latino classical music genre without excluding the typical music and rhythms associated with Latin America. The TCU Symphony Orchestra and chamber groups will perform works from some of the most noted composers of Latin America, including the Argentinean Astor Piazzola, the Brazilian Marlos Nobre and Mexican composers Ponce and Revueltas.

Admission is $8 per concert or $25 for a four-concert Festival pass, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting victims of the recent earthquake in Peru. Scheduled performances:

7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11
Rapsodia Latina
PepsiCo Recital Hall
Cellist Jesús Castro-Balbi, pianist Gloria Lin and the TCU Cello Ensemble

7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12
Tango y Tradicion
Ed Landreth Auditorium
The TCU Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Germán Gutiérrez
Soloists: Daniel Binelli (bandoneon), Polly Ferman (piano) and Joe Eckert (saxophone)

1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13
Caminos del Inka
PepsiCo Recital Hall
Miguel  Harth-Bedoya, conductor of the Fort Worth Symphony, will conduct a TCU
chamber group in music from his Inka Road project, with
mezzo-soprano Silvia Paola Nuñez

3:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13
Poesia y Cancion
PepsiCo Recital Hall
A poetry reading set to music by Daniel Binelli (bandoneon), Polly Ferman (piano),
San-Ky Kim (tenor) and Patricia Bedford (soprano)

For more information, call 817-257-7143 or visit the Web site at www.latinarts.tcu.edu.