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June 9, 2008, Bolivia Criolla Abu-Gosh Festival

Bolivia Criolla,
A Concert of Baroque Festive Music for Guadalupe
from La Plata, Bolivia, c. 1717

This concert attempts to reproduce in sound the wealth and joy of The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which lasted ten days in the city of La Plata (also called Chuquisaca, and now known as Sucre, in Bolivia).
This musical recreation of the feast combines various kinds of Baroque sacred and popular music likely to be heard on the occasion of the Guadalupe festivities, including music especially written c.1717 by a native of Chuquisaca, Roque Jacinto de Chavarría (1688-1719).
The program was assembled especially for the Abu Gosh Festival by musicologist Bernardo Illari, with the aim of achieving the richest possible representation of how such a festival must have sounded: the colorful meeting-point of a variety of cultures, practices, expressions and people.

program:

Todo el mundo en general	Arr. by Francisco Correa de Arauxo (Facultad orgánica, Seville: 1626)
1. Vespers Villancico: Ángeles, ¡al facistol! Magnificat quarti toni	Anonymous (Sucre) Juan de Araujo (1649?-1712)
2. Mass Kyrie and Gloria from Missa (8º. tono) Villancico (at the Epistle): Silencio, pasito, quedito, quedo	Tomás de Torrejón y Velazco (1644-1728) Juan de Araujo
3. Procession Lanchas para bailar Hymn: María, todo es María	Anonymous (gathered by Martínez Compañón) Anonymous (gathered by Amédée François Frézier, Chile/Peru, c. 1713)
Cuatro: Ay del alma mía	Andrés Flores (1690-1754)
Cachua serranita	Anonymous (gathered by Baltasar J de Martínez Compañón, Trujillo, Peru, c. 1790)
4. Bullfighting Los toros: Baile de toritos Los toros: Oigan las fiestas de toros	Anonymous (gathered by M. M. Mercado) Roque Jacinto de Chavarría (1688-1719)
5. An Afternoon Salve Céfiro de las flores Salve: Alegría, risa, ha! Salve Regina	attr. to José Medina Roque Jacinto de Chavarría Juan de Araujo
A la flor del Alba	Roque Jacinto de Chavarría

 

ensemble:

Conception and musical edition: Bernardo Illari
Sources: Correa and Frézier, original prints. Araujo’s Magnificat, Seminario de San Antonio Abad, Cusco (Peru), in microfilm at the Universidad de Chile (Santiago). Martínez Compañón, Biblioteca del Palacio Real, Madrid. All other pieces, Archivo y Biblioteca Nacionales de Bolivia (Sucre).

Conductor, musical director:
Myrna Herzog

Soloists: 
Macarena Lopez Levin, Michal Okon – soprano
Hadas Gur - alto
Shlomo Blumenfeld - tenor

Shahar Choir
Directed by Gila Brill

The PHOENIX ensemble of early instruments
Directed by Myrna Herzog

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