El Deber: The Chiquitos 2022 Missionary Music and Theater Season Festival will have concerts and plays in eight locations in Chiquitano towns and in the capital of Santa Cruz. It is dedicated to the work of Martin Schmid The inhabitants of the Chiquitano towns carry baroque music in their blood. From there, more than 300…
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The Moxos Ensemble returns to tours on European soil | El Ensamble Moxos retorna a las giras por suelo europeo
El Deber: El recorrido comprende ciudades de España y Francia | The tour includes cities in Spain and France The Bolivian group will begin this Friday a cultural exchange tour through several European cities in which they will promote their new album called Majara’iwa Three years have passed since the Moxos Ensemble’s last concerts abroad…
Indigenous conductor shone with Juilliard415 – Directora indígena se lució con Juilliard415
El Diario: Missions of Chiquitos Festival Mercedes Papú was the protagonist of an unprecedented event, directing American musicians In the inaugural framework of the XIII International Festival of American Renaissance and Baroque Music “Misiones de Chiquitos”, the conductor Mercedes Papú, a native of Urubichá, a town in the Guarayos province, in the northwest of Santa…
Misiones de Chiquitos: American Renaissance and Baroque Music – Música Renacentista y Barroca Americana
Jorge Soruco, Página Siete: Baroque Music Festival will revive with 130 concerts 26 casts from Bolivia and 19 from different parts of the planet will participate. The venues for the recitals will be Santa Cruz and Chiquitos. After four years of waiting, the XIII International Festival of American Renaissance and Baroque Music “Misiones de Chiquitos”…
Old missionary manuscript in Bolivia was immortalized
EFE reports via Pagina Siete: The score of an old missionary mass in the country was written between 1730 and 1740. The musical score of an old missionary mass written between 1730 and 1740 and sheltered for more than three centuries by the inhabitants of the Chiquitania, in the east of the country, has been…
Jesuit Legacy in the Bolivian Jungle: A Love of Baroque Music
Nicholas Casey for The New York Times: Jesuit Legacy in the Bolivian Jungle: A Love of Baroque Music Students played in a local orchestra concert last month. Baroque music is deeply embedded in the indigenous culture. CreditLena Mucha for The New York Times CONCEPCIÓN, Bolivia — The aging musical score wasn’t easy to read. It was…
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