FIU Opera Theater Workshop presents “Handel in Arcadia”

Handel in Arcadia: An Evening of Dramatic Solo Cantatas. The FIU Opera Theater in collaboration with the FIU Collegium Musicum presents a program of cantatas commissioned by members of the Academy of the Arcadians during the composer’s sojourn in Rome. Although composed in his early 20s, these works reveal Handel’s genius for dramatic vocal writing. The lyricism and beauty of his later operas are apparent in these rarely performed secular cantatas. The works to be presented are “Armida abbandonata;” O lucenti, o sereni occhi;” and “Aminta e Fillide.” The works will be fully staged by the Director of FIU Opera Theater, Robert B. Dundas, and performed in Italian with English supertitles. The entire production will be conducted by the Director of the FIU Musicum Collegium, Juvenal Correa-Salas.

David Dolata
FIU Collegium Musicum Founder

RumBarrocco: AfroBaroque Music & Latin America

AfroBaroque Music & Latin America

Florida International University’s Music Festival 2021 
Sunday, October 24, 3 pm

Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center Concert Hall

Featuring FIU alumna soprano Adriana Ruiz

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage, we will illustrate the intersection of early European music with the aural African and Amerindian traditions and the resulting link with current Latin-American genres, the African diaspora in Latin America and its lasting musical legacy in Ibero-American music, and the fusion of art music or “learned” music with folk and popular forms.

Using musical texts from the 17th and 18th century such us the Trujillo Codex and guitar treatises by Santiago de Murcia and Gaspar Sanz, we present the European, Amerindian, and African traditions that have survived in scores, recreating them through current performance practices of Afro-Latin music traditions in Bolivia, Peru, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. We tap into our collective musical memory to blend past and present, connecting current Afro-Latin dances such as the Hatajo de NegritosJoropoSaya, and Plena with African-influenced dances such as the Cumbe, early Zarabanda, and Zarambeque in performances informed by both history and folklore.

Also in the program: Early vocal music from Spain and Mexico, with texts from the Iberian Cancioneros that depict black women in endearing terms and connected Latin American dances and instrumental improvisations.

The Music of Colonial Latin America Series: March 5-8

 Thursday, March 5 at 7:30pm to 9:00pm

More dates through March 8, 2020

 WPAC – Wertheim Performing Arts Center, Concert Hall (Room 170) 
10910 SW 17th St., Miami, FL 33199

The music of Spanish Colonial Latin America is rich in flavor, history, and expression. This concert series explores music from Mexico City and New Spain, with a particular interest in the musical life of New Spanish cathedrals and music written by Italian composer, Ignacio Jerusalem, and his contemporaries.

Presented as part of the 2020 International Conference on Colonial Music: Music and Arts of Colonial Spain. Information at music.fiu.edu/colonialconference. 

ENTIRE SCHEDULE OF CONCERTS

March 5 | 7:30pm

Music of the Mexico’s Cathedral (1550-1750)

Join the FIU Collegium Musicum, under the direction of Juvenal Correa-Salas, for a not-to-be-missed performance tracing the history and musical development of New Spain’s most important religious center with works by Franco, Fernandez, Céspedes, Salazar, Padilla, Sumaya, and Jerusalem.

– Located at the Wertheim Concert Hall, FIU’s Modesto A. Maidique Campus

$15 General Admission, $10 FIU Faculty, Staff, Seniors, and Alumni, $5 Students (with valid i.d.) 

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March 6 | 7:30pm

Baroque and Galant Music from the New Spanish Cathedrals

FIU Concert Choir

Maria Guinand, conductor

Juvenal Correa-Salas, organ and harpsichord

Works by Billoni (Durando), Salas (Santiago de Cuba), Manuel José de Quiróz (Guatemala), Sumaya (Mexico City), and Ignacio Jerusalem (Mexico City).

– Located at the Wertheim Concert Hall, FIU’s Modesto A. Maidique Campus

$15 General Admission, $10 FIU Faculty, Staff, Seniors, and Alumni, $5 Students (with valid i.d.)

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March 7 | Pre-Concert Talk 7:10pm | 7:30pm Concert

Eighteenth-Century Music from the Mexico City Cathedral: Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the Death of Ignacio Jerusalem (1707-1769)

Chicago Arts Orchestra (Professional Chamber Orchestra from Chicago)

Javier José Mendoza, Artistic Director

with Special Guests, Encantus Voices Choir

Maibel Troia, Conductor

Don’t miss this chance to hear the acclaimed Chicago Arts Orchestra present Spanish music from the colonial era, never before heard in Florida! Named a “Critic’s Pick” by Time Out Chicago and a “Recommend” by the Chicago Tribune, the CAO has garnered an international reputation for performing galant music from Spanish archives in the New World. The CAO’s 2012 album release Al combate and forthcoming release of Ignacio Jerusalem’s Mass in G are examples of the orchestras work and dedication to colonial Spanish Repertoire. Join us to hear these rarely performed treasures of Spanish Heritage. Tickets available at www.ChicagoArtsOrchestra.org

– Located at La Merced Chapel on the campus of Corpus Christi Church

$35 General Admission | $20 Seniors | $10 Students with ID

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March 8 | Pre-Concert Talk 3:45pm | 4:00pm Concert

Eighteenth-Century Music from the Mexico City Cathedral: Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the Death of Ignacio Jerusalem (1707-1769)

Chicago Arts Orchestra

Javier José Mendoza, Artistic Director

with Special Guests, Encantus Voices Choir

Maibel Troia, Conductor

Don’t miss this chance to hear the acclaimed Chicago Arts Orchestra present Spanish music from the colonial era, never before heard in Florida! Named a “Critic’s Pick” by Time Out Chicago and a “Recommend” by the Chicago Tribune, the CAO has garnered an international reputation for performing galant music from Spanish archives in the New World. The CAO’s 2012 album release Al combate and forthcoming release of Ignacio Jerusalem’s Mass in G are examples of the orchestras work and dedication to colonial Spanish Repertoire. Join us to hear these rarely performed treasures of Spanish Heritage. Tickets available at www.ChicagoArtsOrchestra.org

– Located at La Merced Chapel on the campus of Corpus Christi Church

$35 General Admission | $20 Seniors | $10 Students with ID

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Venice Baroque Orchestra

On March 1, this prestigious ensemble will perform a selection of 18th century Baroque masterpieces, including famous concerti by Antonio Vivaldi and Francesco Geminiani’s version of the most popular tune in music history, La Folia – all with authentic period instruments and inimitable virtuosity.
 
The Venice Baroque Orchestra was founded in 1997 by Baroque scholar and harpsichordist, Andrea Marcon. Under his leadership, the orchestra has given modern-day premiers of rarely performed historical operas, including Francesco Cavalli’s L’Orione, Vivaldi’s AtenaideAndromeda liberata, Benedetto Marcello’s La morte d’Adone and Il trionfo della poesia e della musica, and Boccherini’s La Clementina.
 
The critically acclaimed ensemble has performed in more U.S. cities than any other Baroque orchestra in history, in addition to extensive tours across Asia and Europe. The orchestra has also thrilled audiences worldwide through several television specials, including films by the BBC, ARTE, NTR (Netherlands), and NHK.

This concert is a co-production presented by the FIU School of Music and RK Cultural Productions. 

David Dolata
Professor of Musicology
 
 

Marco Battaglia: 19th-century Guitar Art Music

Marco Battaglia will present The Guitar in Early 19th Century. He will discuss guitar family period instruments, sources, repertoire, and performance practices in the early 19th century. The main purpose of the lecture is to identify and use a method for analyzing the original sources (sheet music and editions) and coming up with a technique also based on research into literature on interpretation related to other instruments in addition to the guitar. Special attention is paid to period guitars, their history and development starting with the early 6-string ones with six simple strings up to those prior to the Torres version, to the design features and various types of materials used in making the strings.

David Dolata: Lutorama

David Dolata‘s lecture-demo Lutorama take you on a tour through his lutes where he explains the instrument’s evolution in response to the repertoire and the differences among them and plays some Renaissance and Baroque pieces on each of them. If you ask a lutenist’s wife how many lutes her husband needs, she’ll respond: “just one more.” Classical guitarists generally get by with just one guitar, so why can’t lutenists? In his presentation, David Dolata will answer that question by showing the audience his five lutes and counting and how they’re used. After that you’ll know why lutenists always need just one more.

Vivaldi’s Motezuma at FIU

Please join us for this rare opportunity to hear Vivaldi’s recently rediscovered opera Motezuma, which first premiered in Venice in 1733 and was loosely inspired by the historic 1519 encounters between Hernan Cortes, a Spanish conquistador, and Aztec ruler Montezuma. The performance of this semi-staged opera in collaboration with the Bach Society of Minnesota provides us with a glimpse of Vivaldi’s perspective on the settlement of the New World. This is the first of two Spring 2020 co-productions presented by the FIU School of Music and RK Cultural Productions. Mark your calendars for our second event, a performance by the celebrated Venice Baroque Orchestra on Sunday, March 1, 2020, at the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center Concert Hall.

FIU Collegium Musicum Concert

The Spring 2019 FIU Collegium Musicum concert is not to be missed. Our new Director Juvenal Correa-Salas has created a delightful extravaganza that tours the audience through music history exploring the intimate relationship among music, song, and dance with live dancers accompanied by harpsichord, organ, viola da gamba, vielle, violin, cello, recorders, sackbut, crumhorns, percussion, and lute and theorbo. Click here for more information or to order tickets.

See you there,

David Dolata
FIU Collegium Musicum Director Emeritus