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Guillermo Gregorio & the Madi Ensemble
Phone: 312-744-6630
Presented by the International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago, the Latino Music Festival spotlights a classical tradition that's usually overshadowed by enormously popular styles like reggaeton and salsa. The penultimate concert of this year's festival, which began in September, is by the Madi Ensemble, a group founded by Argentine composer and reedist Guillermo Gregorio to honor South America's nearly forgotten classical avant-garde, which has historically been aware of but distinct from its European and North American counterparts. The work of artists' collectives like Arte Madi and Arte Concreto Invencion, both formed in the mid-40s, often overlaps in conception with this music, and to underscore those connections, images of paintings, sculptures, and hybrid works will be screened during the performance. Pianist Jeff Kowalkowski will play a solo arrangement of Juan Carlos Paz's "Ten Pieces on a Row in Twelve Tones" (1944) and a nine-piece version of the Madi Ensemble will perform works by Gregorio, Argentinean Gustavo Leone, and Uruguay-born Elbio Barilari. Barilari's contribution uses folk-dance rhythms and celebrates his countryman Joaquin Torres Garcia, whose visual art prefigured Arte Madi in its bridging of the figurative and the abstract. Gregorio's three pieces, with their modular construction and elements of improvisation and musique concrete, reflect his interest in applying principles from architecture and design to music—and tonight's lineup of the Madi Ensemble includes two of his most sympathetic collaborators, cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and percussionist Carrie Biolo. —Bill Meyer
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Claudia Cassidy Theater
- Loop Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington
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312-744-6630
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