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Juan Pedro Gaffney R., director; Martha Rodríguez Salazar, assistant director,
with the vocal and instrumental artists of CONJUNTO NUEVO MUNDO in their
Every January since 1987 Coro has brought to the Bay Area an ever-fresh celebration in song of Día de los Reyes and the feast-days that surround it, stretching from La Noche Buena to Candelaria. As Coro’s most important concert cycle each year, this is a feast of feasts, of music new and old, from near and far, for reverie or for revelry, but always filling the heart and thrilling the soul.
Instituto Pro Música de California, Mission Cultural Center, First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto, St. Mary’s College of California Integral Program and the Parishes of St. Joseph the Worker and Mission Dolores co-present
CORO HISPANO DE SAN FRANCISCO
Juan Pedro Gaffney R., director; Martha Rodríguez Salazar, assistant director,
with the vocal and instrumental artists of CONJUNTO NUEVO MUNDO in their
20th Annual Día de los Reyes Concert Series: January 2007
(Tickets for performances may be purchased at the door (please arrive early)
Adult tickets are $20.00, Seniors and students (college) are $15.00 and youths
under 18 are free. For more information, please call 415-431-9234)
Every January since 1987 Coro has brought to the Bay Area an ever-fresh celebration in song of Día de los Reyes and the feast-days that surround it, stretching from La Noche Buena to Candelaria. As Coro’s most important concert cycle each year, this is a feast of feasts, of music new and old, from near and far, for reverie or for revelry, but always filling the heart and thrilling the soul.
In this year’s program, Coro and Conjunto balance the opulent sonorities of Early Baroque polychoral motets with the ebullient sounds of folk-originate works from Mexico, Argentina, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Peru. A thousand candles glow in the 12-voice, triple-choir setting of O Magnum Mysterium by Juan Bautista Comes, echoed later in the program by the more intimate, four-voice setting by Tomás Luis de Victoria. From the pen of Juan Gutierrez de Padilla two works in both styles: the eight-voice Joseph, fili David, and the rhythmically playful six-voice calenda Serafines se desempeñan. From 16th-century Mexico, a votive hymn to La Guadalupana sung in Nahuatl, tongue of the Aztecs; from the highlands of Peru, a haunting shepherds’ carol sung in Quechua, accompanied by the sounds of quenas, drums and bells; and from Argentina, Ariel Ramírez’ ever-popular Navidad Nuestra. The program concludes with the infectious rhythm of Carlos Mejía Godoy’s Cristo de Palacagüina.
This season's roster of artists brings together Conjunto’s team of vocal soloists with some of the Bay Area’s best specialists in early music: Mimi Ruiz & Cecilia Engelhart López. sopranos; Claire Giovannetti & Jillian Picazo, mezzosopranos; Victor Floyd, Claudio Santomé & Aurelio Viscarra, tenors; John Kendall Bailey & Jesús Guillén, baritone; Micah Epps and David Varnum, basses; ; Erika Miranda & Gerardo Moreno, violins; Victor Lowrie Tafoya, viola; Javier Rosas, violoncello; Krisin Zoernig, contrabass; Martha Rodríguez Salazar, flute; Jonathan Harris, cornett; Francisco Toldi, bajón; Cono Irías, percussion; & Gilbert Martínez, harpsichord.
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