Cantemos Musica en Español

Mimi S. Daitz, conductor
John Lettieri, piano
Jorge Lockward, guest conductor
Arturo Flores, charango, Inti Maldonado, guitar, Tony Batista, double-bass, Marcos Cáceres, percussion, Carlos Carpio, percussion, Laura Hoffman, Raquel Ortiz, soprano, Linda Cox, Leila Sesmero, alto, Kir Rodriguez, tenor, Emile Beaux, bass

Saturday, May 20, 2000, Church of the Mediator, Bronx, NY

Two Motets
"Tantum ergo"
"Ave Maria"
Tomás Luis de Victoria
(Spain, 1540-1613)
Three 16th Century Spanish pieces from the 1556 Cancionera de Uppsala
"No la devemos dormir"
Linda Cox, alto solo
"Rey a quien reyes adoran"
Esther Habana, Dorren Kagan, Suzanne Wallin, Betty Figueroa, Nancy Quigley, Carol Tropper, John Pinegar, Peter Kowalski, solo ensemble
"Conque la lavaré"
 
Two songs from Tres Canciones Negras, with piano
"Punto de Habanera" (Néstor Luján)
"Canción de cuna para dormir a un negrito" (Ildefonso Pereda Valdés)
Vivian Rivera, soprano solo
Xavier Montsalvatge
(Spain, b. 1912)
Three songs
"Dos corazones" (anon.) "Me gustas cuando callas" (Pablo Neruda)
"Corazón disperso" (Enrique González Martinez)
Esther Habana, Laura Hoffman, Doreen Kagan, Raquel Ortiz, Suzanne Wallin, Linda Cox, Betty Figeroa, Leila Sesmero, Carol Tropper, John Pinegar, Kir Rodriguez, Marc Zappi, Maurice Berger, Emile Beux, Peter Kowalski, Stanley Tropper, RCS ensemble
Blas Galindo
(México, 1920-1993)
Four songs from Indianas, with piano
"Al tribunal de tu pecho..." (León Benarós)
"Chañarcito, Chañarcito..." (León Benarós)
"Quien fuera como el jazmin" (León Benarós)
"Gala del dia" (Arturo Vazquez)
Carlos Guastavino
(Argentina, b. 1914)
"Canción jibara" Pablo Fernández Badillo
(Puerto Rico, b. 1917)
Four popular songs from Puerto Rico
"Verde Luz"
"Querube"
"Lamento Borincano"
"Preciosa"
Kir Rodriguez, tenor, guitar

Antonio Cabán Vale
Raphael Hernández
Rafael Hernández
Rafael Hernández
Misa Criolla
Kyrie, vidala-baguala
Gloria, carnavalito
Credo, chacerera trunca
Sanctus, carnaval cochabambino
Agnus Dei, estil pampeano
Ariel Ramirez
(Argentina, b. 1921)