São Paulo Symph. Orchestra and Raíces de América
Latin Concert is the result of the union of two musical groups of very different tendencies
, at one side, the "São Paulo Symphonic Orchestra", the professional cast of graduates from the "Tom Jobim" Music Free University, who idealized the wholw project, that had , as a goal, the diffusion of the concert music , originarilly comceived for this kind of instrumental formation, with emphasis on the twentieth century music, and , on the other side, the "Raíces de América" Band,
leaded by the argentine composer Willy Verdaguer and integrated by Brazilian, Argentine and Chilean musicians, considered by the musical critics one of the greatest folkclorical latin american music groups. The concert took place in São Paulo Latin American Memorial, in 1995, on April, it was the audience record for the "São Paulo Symphonic Orchestra" presentations. The North American vision of the latin culture is expressed in the great "Cubana Overture" from George Gershwin, followed by the " Two Pampean Scenes " suite from the Argentine composer Theodoro de Castro. As much as the musical language nurtured by the
"Raíces" in the diffusion of the several latin rythms, the arranges produced brought for that concert the sound and structural richness of the Symphonic language widely played by the Orchestra with the help of a team of the most respectable paulist ( São Paulo) arrangists, the stars Edmundo Villani-Côrtes, Nailor de Azevedo
"Proveta", Laércio de Freitas and Roberto Sion.
"Program"
- Part I
- Cuban Overture
- Two Pampean Scenes
- Part II
- Abertura
- Nu 2000
- Zamba de las Tolderias
- Negra de Colores
- Part III
- Canción con Todos
- El Pajaro Campana
- Disparada
- Part IV
- Guantanamera
- Fiesta de San Benito
Regency: Roberto Farias; and the "Raíces de América" integrants:
- Willy Verdaguer
- Nacha Moretto
- Simbas Horas
- Pedro Pinto Cueto
- Jorge Menares Lopez
- Manolo Chumingo
- Marinho Franco
- Tadeu Passarelli
- André Perine