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Sat. 11 December 2021 – 15:30
Jonatan Alvarado
presents MEMBER CONCERT:
11/12

Jonatan Alvarado and Ariel Abramovich: Huehuetenango (LIVE & STREAM)

Music from an interrupted songbook


The Latin American Music Library at Indiana University preserves a 15-volume collection of polyphonic music and Gregorian chant from the current Department of Huehuetenango, in northern Guatemala. Originally compiled between 1582 and 1635, these rare books are testimony to the musical practice of a remote community, surrounded by the highest mountain ranges in Central America, and therefore far from the great colonial urban centers, its imposing cathedrals with their choirs and their studios…

The Huehuetenango archive is the result of several interruptions: the European invasion interrupts the history of the original inhabitants, while their own artistic production interrupts the European monopoly on Renaissance musical history. Eventually, the missions themselves are interrupted and the function of these manuscripts changes completely, reaching us as remnants of a musical culture whose dimension and variety can only be intuited.

In this program, singer Jonatan Alvarado and lute player Ariel Abramovich, explore the Guatemaltecan repertoire through a dialogue with contemporary European collections, including the famous Cancionero de Upsala, the tablature collections by Pierre Attaignant, with special emphasis on pieces that are exclusive to the Guatemalan books. A very intimate evening with music that you won't hear almost anywhere else...

Jonatan Alvarado and Ariel Abramovich
With Gaia Szames, Sophia Patsi and Juan Vizán**

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