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LATIN AMERICAN HORIZONS
Music · Monday, November 2 · 20:00 · Toulouse
AUDITORIUM SAINT-PIERRE DES CUISINES, 12 Place Saint-Pierre
With Astor Piazzolla, tango sheds its image of salon dance to become a tense, free and deeply expressive music. The quartets by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Alberto Ginastera build on this momentum with a rich writing that blends traditional rhythms, a quest for original timbres and rhythmic power. The arrangements of Arturo Márquez's Danzón No. 2 and Aldemaro Romero's Fuga con pajarillo open the string quartet repertoire to other sound spaces: those of dance, improvisation and popular celebration. This evening promises…
