May 7, 8:00 pm
Barnum Hall

Heitor Villa-Lobos
  Lembranças do Sertāo: Bachianas Braisileiras No.2 — Dansa (1930)
Alberto Ginastera
  String Quartet No. 2 (1958)
Carlos Chavez
  Sinfonia India (1935)
Silvestre Revueltas
  Toccata (1933)
Ginastera
  Cantata para America Magica (1960)                                                 
Villa-lobos
  Choros No. 10 "Rasga o Coração" (1925)

  Mark Alan Hilt, conductor
  Lucy Shelton, soprano
  Vicki Ray & Brian Pezzone, pianos;
  Denali Quartet
  Jacaranda Percussion
  Jacaranda Festival Orchestra & Chorus
  The Verdi Chorus
  Jacaranda Youth Chamber Orchestra

Text: Brazilian Indian chants; Pre-Columbian poems: "Oh! You, Tzacol, Bitol, look at us, hear us! Do not leave us, forsake us not, Heart of the Sky, Heart of the Earth! Protect our children, and our descendants...

"Jungle Souvenirs" and a string quartet that revels in the extreme beauty of the pampas, lead the way into the primal power of ancient Mexican and South American cultures at their most intoxicating, colorful, and rhythmically infectious in these percussion-rich orchestral and ensemble scores.