The 100th birthday of Latin American Music Center founder Juan Orrego-Salas will be celebrated in a two-week series of concerts, lectures and special events Jan. 15-26.
The LAMC will host a number of different events, including three different lectures by visiting scholars, three concerts featuring some of Orrego-Salas’s music as part of a larger program and a main concert devoted entirely to his music.
Performance of Mobili, Op. 63
This performance is a Faculty/Guest Recital featuring Edward Gazouleas, viola and Pei-Shan Lee, piano. They will be performing Orrego-Salas, “Mobili, Op. 63” alongside Joseph Phibbs “Letters from Warsaw” and Dmitri Shostakovich “Sonata.” The performance will be at 8 p.m. Jan. 15 at Auer Hall.
Performance of Biografía mínima de Salvador Allende, Op. 85
This performance is part of Jacobs School of Music’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration Concert. The performance, alongside reflections and readings, are in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. The performance is at 4 p.m. Jan. 20 at Auer Hall.
"With The Pulse of The Times: Orrego Salas' Madrigales for Choir a Cappella in the Continuum of his Choral Oeuvre," Lecture by Carmen-Helena Téllez
Carmen-Helena Téllez, alongside discussant Jan Harrington, will give a lecture at 12:30 p.m., Jan. 23 at the Simon Music Center. Téllez has been the professor of music and senior professor of the choral conducting studio at the University of Notre Dame since 2012.
“Juan Orrego-Salas at 100: Continuity, Change, and Timelessness,” Lecture by Ricardo Lorenz
Ricardo Lorenz will give a lecture using ideas and samples of Orrego-Salas’s work to recount their almost 40-year association and how Orrego-Salas’s legacy lives on his own composition students. Lorenz is currently professor and chair of music composition at Michigan State University College of Music. The lecture is at 4 p.m. Jan. 25 at the Musical Arts Center.
"Experimentation in Practice: CLAEM and the Musical Scene of Buenos Aires during the 1960s," Lecture by Eduardo Herrera
Eduardo Herrera will give a lecture about compositional practices towards experimentation and how the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales was a key site for the shift in approaches to music composition. Herrera is assistant professor of Musicology at Rutgers University. He specializes in contemporary musical practices from Latin America, the Caribbean and Latinx peoples in the U.S. from historical and ethnographic perspectives. The lecture is at 3 p.m. Jan. 25 at the Simon Music Library and Recital Center.
Juan Orrego-Salas 100th Birthday Celebration Concert
Presented by the Latin American Music Center, the celebration concert will feature several works by Orrego-Salas performed by faculty, guests and students. The recital is at 4 p.m. at Auer Hall. Performers include guest artist pianist Aram Arakelyan, guitar player Carlo Fieren, viola player Edward Gazouleas, guest artists Hammond Piano Duo, piano player Shelley Hanmo, guest artists Panacea Quartet, soprano Alejandra Villarreal Martínez and David Dzubay directing the New Music Ensemble. Additional performers will be announced later.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article said that Ricardo Lorenz's lecture will be at 3 p.m. Jan. 25. The lecture will be at 4 p.m. The IDS regrets this error.
