Mesmerizing new works for voice and vibraphone!
Saturday, June 15, 2024, 6:30PM
Robyn Newhouse Hall at the Community Music School of Springfield
127 State Street, Springfield, MA 01103
TICKETS: $0.00-$55.00 (Pay-What-You-Can)
Bahué presents the East Coast premiere of Descarga Hipnótico, a live concert featuring hypnotic works for voice and vibraphone.
The concert lineup boasts compositions by renowned and emerging composers Orlando Jacinto García, Jorge Sosa, Jimena Maldonado, and Ney Rosauro. Attendees will be treated to a unique improvisation by the duo and the world premiere of "Tucum" composed to include a loop station by Axel Retif.
This new work promises to captivate audiences with its mesmerizing blend of voice, vibraphone, and looping pedal. Don't miss this opportunity to experience an unforgettable musical journey into the realm of hypnotic sounds and innovative compositions.
Join us for a Reception directly following the concert.
Opening Reading by Magdalena Gomez!
“Canto de cuna para la humanidad” for solo voice
by Orlando Jacinto García
“Tucum” for two melodic lines and looping station (world premiere)
by Axel Retif
“May Gets Here”, “Her Comfortable Shoes”, and “Stars and Constellations” for voice, vibraphone, and electronics
by Jorge Sosa
“Descarga Hipnótico”
by Bahue, Aliana de la Guardia & Ariel Campos
“Axolotl” for voice and vibraphone
Jimena Maldonado
“Memories 1 & 2” for voice and vibraphone
by Ney Rosauro
Magdalena Gómez
Poet Laureate of Springfield, MA (2019-2022) and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow (2021-2022) has been a cultural worker since 1976. In 2019 she received the Latinas 50 Plus Literature Award at Fordham University and the Latinx Excellence on the Hill Award from the Black and Latino Legislative Caucus of MA at the State House. Her solo play on iconoclastic Puerto Rican labor leader, activist, feminist and journalist Luisa Capetillo, (October 28, 1879 – April 10, 1922) is included in The Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance (2024). Bronze sculptor and literary editor, Leah Poller, hails Magdalena’s memoir, Mi’ja (Heliotrope Books, NYC) as “a new genre for the 21st Century.” You who are viewing this image are not strangers to me or to each other. Love has brought us here.
“Couch potatoes are not a new crop. The advent of television stretched the taproot from fingerlings to meaty russets. The dreaded end of Ed Sullivan meant the weekend was officially over. Papi’s blindingly white, starched shirt and cooking apron hung from the shower rod; flags of unavoidable surrender.” - Mi’ja
Photo by George Malave. Pregones Theater, NYC, 2022
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Special Thanks and Funding
This program is supported in part by The Aaron Copland Fund for Music 30 Grants to Celebrate 30 Years Award and with special thanks to the Community Music School of Springfield, UMass Amherst, and Magdalena Gomez!
