Thursday, March 27

(All events free and open to the public except where indicated.)

11:00am – Welcome: Tim Carter, David G. Frey Distinguished Professor and Chair, Music Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Person Recital Hall.

11:15am-12:00pm – Keynote address: “Unity in Diversity in Latino Music of the United States,” Manuel Peña, California State University, Fresno, Professor Emeritus. Person Recital Hall.

12:00-12:30 – Break

12:30-2:30pm – Session 1: Cultural Circulation in the Americas. Person Recital Hall. Co-sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the Americas.

Panel participants:

• Anna Ochs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “El eco de Dios: the Reception of Angela Peralta in Mexico City, 1865-1879”
• Stewart Bankhead, “Luis Valdez and Chicano Theater: Sacred/Revolutionary—A Search for Identity”
• Tamara Johnson, “Dance With Me? Mobility and Legitimacy in the Construction of North Carolina’s Salsa Scenes”
• Brendan Greaves, “ ‘A Paper Wedding’: The Vernacular Modernism of Felipe Jesus Consalvos”
• Laura Halperin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Discussant.

2:30-3:00pm – Break

3:00-5:00pm – Session 2: Latina/o Music and Spanish-Language Radio in the Triangle. Person Recital Hall. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of the American South. 

Panel participants:

• Julie Garza, Program Director, La Ley 96.9 FM Raleigh
• Miguel González, La Ley 96.9 FM Raleigh
• Ricardo Granillo, Latin Music Program, WSHA 88.9 FM Raleigh
• Eduardo Pérez, Eastway Elementary School (Family Facilitator) and former DJ at WNCU 90.7 FM Durham
• Laura Wenzel, Radio Pa'lante, WCOM 103.5 FM Carrboro
  
• Sharon Mujica, Moderator

5:45pm-6:45pm – Master Class with La Fontegara: Baroque Chamber Music of Mexico. Person Choral Room.

Workshop leaders:

• María Díez-Canedo, Eunice Padilla, and Eloy Cruz

Workshop participants:

• UNC’s Collegium Musicum, Brent Wissick, Director

6:15-7:15pm – Pre-concert Public Forum: Latin American Composers in the United States, Gerrard Hall.

Panelists:

• Walter Clark, University of California, Riverside, “What Puts the ‘Latin’ in Latin American Music? Defining the Borders that We Cross”
• Tania León, City University of New York, respondent
• Allen Anderson, UNC-CH, Music Department, respondent

7:30-9:30pm – Modern Music of Latin America. Memorial Hall, UNC-CH. $15 general admission ($10 UNC students, faculty and staff). For more information and tickets, 843-3333.

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• “Quintette (en forme de Choros)” Heitor Villa Lobos (1887-1959), Carolina Wind Quintet: Brooks de Wetter-Smith, flute; Michael Schultz, oboe; Donald Oehler, clarinet; John Pederson, bassoon; Andrew McAfee, horn
• “Pampeana No. 2 for Cello and Piano, Op. 21” Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983), Mayron Tsong, piano; Nigel Boehm, cello
• "Ancients" Tania Leon (b.1943), Terry Rhodes, soprano; Ellen Williams, mezzo soprano;
  Brooks de Wetter-Smith,  flute; Donald Oehler, clarinet; Yorum Youngerman, viola; Brent Wissick, cello;
  Matt Savage, percussion; Tonu Kalam, conductor
  
• INTERMISSION
• “El sonido dulce de tu voz” Orlando Jacinto Garcia (b. 1954), UNC Chamber Singers, Susan Klebanow, Conductor
• “Toccata” Carlos Chávez (1899-1978), UNC Percussion Ensemble, Lynn Glassock, Director
• “Las dos estaciones” Paul Desenne (b.1959),
  INVIERNO (Rainy Season)
  Allegro, sempre molto ritmico
  I. Goteras (roof leaks)
  II. Coquiloquio (Frog Assembly)
  Largo e giustissimo sempre
  III. Wipers Gigavalse/Deslave (Landslide)
  VERANO (Dry Season)
  IV. Noche del Grillo Transfigurado (Night of the Transfigured Cricket)
  V. Verano-2-Cumbion Tostao (Big Toasted Cumbia)
  VI. Polo Quemao (Burnt Polo)
  Jennifer Curtis, violin soloist; Richard Luby and Dana Friedli, concertino violins; Tasi Matthews and Ariadna Bazarnik-Ilika, ripieno violins; Yorum Youngerman, viola; Brent Wissick, cello; Robbie Link, bass; Elaine Funaro, harpsichord; Susan Klebanow, conductor
  

Friday, March 28

4:00-6:00 - Session 3: Workshop and Panel on Afro-Caribbean Music and Its Intersections with Jazz. Hill Hall 107.

Workshop leaders:

• Nelson Delgado
• Beverly Botsford
• Bradley Simmons

Panel participants:

• Ben Lapidus, John Jay College, CUNY, “Entre el afinque, folklor y el jazz: A Personal Account of the Intersection of Spanish Caribbean Music and Jazz”
• David F. Garcia, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Cubana Be, Cubana Bop: Musical Collisions and Coalitions in the Making of Afro-Cuban Jazz”
  

6:00-7:00pm – Break

7:00-7:45pm – Pre-concert Public Forum: Transcontinental Exchanges in Music in the 17th and 18th Centuries: Europe and the Spanish New World. Hill Hall Auditorium.

Panelists:

• Tim Carter, UNC-CH, Music Department
• Bernardo Illari, University of North Texas
• Brent Wissick, UNC-CH, Music Department

8:00-10:00pm – The William S. Newman Artists Series Presents - La Fontegara, Arca de Música: Baroque Music from Mexican Archives. Hill Hall Auditorium. Co-sponsored by Carolina Performing Arts. $15 general admission ($10 UNC students, faculty and staff). For more information and tickets, 962-1039.

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• Four Sonatas (Anonymous, c. 1750, Alle Francese Cathedral of Mexico City)
• Quaderno de Doña Guadalupe Mayner, Sonata Quinta for keyboard (Señor Aydem, c. 1800)
• Four Sonatas (Anonymous, c. 1750, Largo Cathedral of Mexico City)
• Five dances (Códice Saldivar 4,Gallardas Santiago de Murcia, c. 1732)
• INTERMISSION
• Sonata No. 7 in A Major (Pietro-Antonio Locatelli, 1695-1764, Museo Nacional de Antropología e Historia)
• Two guitar pieces (Santiago de Murcia)
• Sonata in a minor for flute and continuo (Luis Misón, 1727-1766, Museo Nacional de Antropología e Historia)
  

Saturday, March 29

10:00-am12:00pm – Session 4: Workshop and panel on Contemporary Mexican music in the United States. Person Recital Hall.

Workshop leaders:

• Fred Huerta of Rey Norteño

Panel participants:

• Catherine Ragland, Empire State College, State University of New York “Somos Más Americanos: Re-imaging History, Place and Nationality through Música Norteña”
• Helena Simonett, Vanderbilt University, “A Sense of Place among MexAmerica's Transnational Audiences”
• Altha Cravey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Geography, discussant

12:00-1:00pm – Break

1:00-3:00pm – Session 5: Workshop and panel on tango music and dance. Hill Hall 107, UNC-CH. Free and open to the public.

Workshop leaders:

• Roberto and Amalia Restucha, tango dancers; musicians TBA

Featured performance by NOVO Quartet, “Adios Nonino” (Astor Piazzolla; arranged for saxophone quartet by Johan van der Linden)

• Matthew McClure, soprano saxophone
• Amanda Evans, alto saxophone
• Hung-chang Wei, tenor saxophone
• Jonathan Morrison, baritone saxophone

Panel participants:

•    Bernardo Illari, University of North Texas, “María de Buenos Aires: The Tango of the Eternal Return”
•    John Chasteen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of History

3:00-4:30pm – Break

4:30-6:00pm – Latin American Strings Concert. Person Recital Hall. Co-sponsored by the Institute of Arts and Humanities.

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• “Son al son” Cesar Portillo de la Luz (b.1922), “La Habana Vieja” Lou Perez (1921-2005) arr.David Garcia, “Acuerdate de mi” José Gómez Torres(n.d.), Charanga Carolina, David Garcia, Director; Christina Smith, flute; Mary-Kathryn Rallings, violin; Paige Smith, violin; Andrew Magill, violin; Amy Abromowitz, violin; Andrew Anagnost, cello; Alex Evans, piano; Alex Van Gills, bass; Pako Santigao, timbales; Nelson Delgado, vocals and congas
  
• “Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 for Eight Cellos and Soprano” Heitor Villa Lobos (1887-1959), Brent Wissick, cello; Nigel Boehm, cello UNC’s cello studio; Jeanne Fischer, soprano
• “Música de feria” Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940), Richard Luby’s student quartet studio; Callie Jamar, violin; Kameron Daniels, violin; Dalia Razo, viola; Leah Gibson, cello
  
• INTERMISSION
• “Angoa” Félix Reina (1921-1998) and “Liceo del Pilar” Enrique Jorrin (1926-1987), Charanga Carolina and Durham Academy Chamber Ensemble, Michael Meyers, Director
• “El Avance” Alejandro Tomás Valdez (n.d.), “Pide que lo toque” Orlando Cabrera (n.d.), Charanga Carolina; Andrew Kerkoff, bass; Stephen Anderson, guest pianist
  

6:00-8:00pm – Session 6: Panel and Discussion on Sonidero (transnational Mexican DJ) music in Mexico and the United States. The ArtsCenter at Carrboro. Open and free to the public. Co-sponsored by The Center for Globalization, UNC Chapel Hill.

Panel participants:

• Pedro Lasch, Duke University
• Catherine Ragland, Empire State College, State University of New York
• Kelley Tatro, Duke University “Oye Mi Cumbia: Cultivating a
  Sonidero Scene in the Triangle, North Carolina”
  

8:00-10:00pm – Gonzalo Rubalcaba. Memorial Hall, UNC-CH. $50/$40/$34/$24 tickets. $10 tickets for UNC students. For more information please call 919-843-3333.

9:00-2:00am – Sabado Sonidero – Sonidero music and dance at The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. Open and free to the public. Co-sponsored by The Center for Globalization, UNC Chapel Hill.

Sunday, March 30

12:00-2:00pm – Session 7: Workshop and panel on Brazilian music and dance. Hill Hall 107.

Workshop leaders:

• Paulo Lopes
• Eduardo de Souza
• Cleibe Souza
  

Panel participants:

    •    Irna Priore, UNC-Greensboro, “Authenticity and Performance Practice: Bossa nova in Today’s World”
    •    Jason Stanyek, New York University, “Sotaques: Performing the Brazilian Voice in the United States”

2:00-2:30pm – Break

2:30-4:30pm – Session 8: Roundtable: Teaching, Service, Research, and Latina/o Studies at UNC Chapel Hill. Hill Hall 107. Co-sponsored by UNIDOS.

Roundtable participants:

• María DeGuzmán, Director of the Latina/o Studies Program, roundtable chair
• Louis Perez, Jr., Director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas
• Joseph Jordan, Director of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
• Josmell Pérez, Multicultural Programs Coordinator, Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  
• Kristin Economo, Class of 2008, International Studies, Director of Student Latino Initiative
• Ronald Bilbao, Class of 2010, Political Science, Chair of the “Committee to Establish a Center for Latina/o Studies at UNC” (CHispA)
• Bela Kussin, Durham Academy Board of Trustees and Connecting Student Identities Mentor

5:30-9:00pm – Música Latina in Carolina featuring Rey Norteño. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. Free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Latina/o Studies Program, UNC Chapel Hill

Program:

• Holy Samba, samba music and dance
• In the Pocket (Durham Academy), Trevor Hoyt and Herb Lamb, directors
• Durham Academy Salsa Club (salsa and chacha)
  
• Orquesta GarDel, salsa music and dance
• Tangos para Recordar, tango music and dance
• Rey Norteño, música norteña

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