Scripps College presents chamber concert “Tres Vidas” as part of Hispanic Heritage Month on Thursday, October 20, 2011, at 7:30 p.m., in Scripps College’s Performing Arts Center, Garrison Theater. The event is free and open to the public.
“Tres Vidas” is a chamber concert piece combining vocal performances and chamber music with cello, piano, and percussion. The work is based on the lives of three legendary Latin American Women: Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, Salvadoran peasant activist Rufina Amaya, and Argentinean poet Alfonsina Storni. The performance will feature a wide stylistic range of music, including popular and folk songs of Mexico, El Salvador, and Argentina, vocal and instrumental tangos by Carlos Gardel and Astor Piazzolla, and new music written for the Core Ensemble by Osvaldo Golijov, Orlando Garcia, Pablo Ortiz, and Manuel DeMurga.
The performance is hosted by the Scripps College Humanities Institute, Department of Music, Dean of Faculty Office, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies the Alexa Fullerton Hampton Speaker Series: Voice and Vision, and Claremont Graduate University Applied Women’s Studies.
About the Scripps College Humanities Institute Fall 2011 Program:
“Performing the Body Politic: Transgressions, Interventions, and Expressive Culture”
How does the exuberance and efficacy of performance invite new ideas about the body in its deconstructions and reconstructions? The seminar will explore these and other questions with scholars, performers, and activists in diverse fields through their lecture, film, and performance series. For more information, please contact the Humanities Institute at (909) 621-8237 or visit their website.