June 11 & 12, 2005
AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
Silver Spring, MD
Virgil Thompson: The Plow that Broke the Plains
Virgil Thompson: The River
Presented in association with the American Film Institute
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
The Embassy of Austria
Washington, DC
Delores Ziegler, mezzo-soprano
Min Ziao-Fen, pipa
Wang Guowei, erhu
Shi Hong Aldin, actress
PostClassical Ensemble conducted by Angel Gil-Ordóñez
Mahler: Abschied from Song of the Earth (Arranged by Arnold Schoenberg)
Chinese traditional music and Chinese poetry
November 2004 – May 2005
The Cultural Institute of Mexico
The Kreeger Museum
The Mansion at Strathmore
Washington, DC – Bethesda, MD
Works by Manuel Ponce, Carlos Chávez, and Silvestre Revueltas.
These composers were to Mexican music what Pancho Villa was to Mexican politics: revolutionaries. Their compositions built on Mexican popular music and dance, as well as village music and indigenous mestizo strains of the city streets.
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