The Island of Enchantment (Summermusik Festival)
Our second Mainstage features music and soloists exclusively from the “Isla del Encanto” or “Island of Enchantment”: Puerto Rico. Cuatro-virtuoso Fabiola Méndez, who counts global superstar Bad Bunny among her many fans, joins the CCO for a performance of Ernesto Cordero’s Concierto Criollo for Cuatro, a Cincinnati premiere. Grammy-nominated composer Roberto Sierra chronicles Puerto Rico’s history of musical invention with his Symphony No. 3, La Salsa. The program will also feature works by two exciting emerging composers: Luis Quintana’s otherworldly On the Ethereal Nature of Bioluminescence and Angélica Negron’s atmospheric Campos Flotantes.
LUIS QUINTANA
On the Ethereal Nature of Bioluminescence
ERNESTO CORDERO
Concierto Criollo for Cuatro
I. Elegía Negra
II. Guajira con Montuno
III. Descarga
Fabiola Méndez, cuatro
ANGÉLICA NEGRÓN
Campos Flotantes
ROBERTO SIERRA
Sinfonia No. 3, La Salsa
I. Tumbao
II. Habanera
III. Danzas
IV. Jolgorio
Wine and non-alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase.
Preconcert activities:
6:45-7:15pm: Join Summermusik Director Eckart Preu and guest artist Fabiola Méndez for a pre-concert talk in the Mayerson Theatre
Event Links
Website: https://go.evvnt.com/3539740-0
Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/3539740-2
