The Americas Vocal Ensemble
Nelly Vuksic, Music Director
Presents:

“Canticas y Madrigales”
Music of Colombian Composer Luis Antonio Escobar

October 5
At Flushing Library , 41-17 Main Street, Flushing, Queens

This programs will feature choral music of the great Colombian composer
Luis Antonio Escobar. The AVE will present his “Canticas”, musical gems
based on traditional “coplas” from the rich folklore of Colombia and
“Madrigales”, that set to music the poetry of such outstanding Colombian
poets as Leon de Greiff, Jorge Rojas and Giovanni Quessep. The programs
will also include Escobar’s Bambuquerias for solo piano, performed by
Cesar Vuksic, as well as solos for voice and piano.

This concerts will celebrate the 4Tay Records CD re-release of Luis
Antonio Escobar - Canticas y Madrigales, an album originally recorded in
Bogota in 1982.

Free and open to the public.
For more information about this concert, please contact Flushing Library
at (718) 661-1200 or visit them on the web at http://www.queenslibrary.org/index.asp

In addition to this album, Luis Antonio Escobar - Canticas y Madrigales,
the Americas Vocal Ensemble has recorded music by American Composer
Joelle Wallach” for the Opus One label, “Serenata” and “Gala del Dia”
for North- South Recording and the ever-popular “A Hispanic Christmas
Celebration” for Premiere label. Visit them online at
http://www.americasvocalensemble.org/.

Luis Antonio Escobar was born in Villapinzón, Colombia in 1925. His
teachers included outstanding musicians like Nicolas Nabokov, Heitor
Villalobos and Carlos Chávez.

His music has been played around the world by such distinguished
conductors as Jascha Horenstein, Howard Mitchell, Olav Roots and Carlos
Chávez. In the United States, Escobar’s Preludes for Percussion were
choreographed by George Balanchine in 1960 for the Ballet Theatre of New
York. The Americas Vocal Ensemble premiered his Canticas y Madrigales at the Americas Society in New York City and in Washington D.C.’s
Organization of American States in 1983 and since then these works have
been an important part of its repertory. Pianist Cesar Vuksic has
performed Escobar’s Bambuquerias in many USA as well as Latin America
venues.

Luis Antonio Escobar composed more than three hundred works that include operas, cantatas, ballets, symphonies, concertos, film scores, chamber works for many instrumental combinations, a capella choral works and Bambuquerias for piano. He was the author of many books about the music of the Americas. He conducted extensive research of his native country and the rest of South America and the Caribbean, including music of the regions colonial period. He died in Miami in 1993.

For more information about the Americas Vocal Ensemble, please contact
Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-797-9166 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net.

Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
316 Pacific St.
Massapequa Park, NY 11762 USA
Tel/Fax: 516-797-9166
E-mail: james.arts@verizon.net
Website: http://www.jamesarts.com