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WNMU Accordionists Alejandro Brittes Trio with Gertie Lopez and the TO Boyz
Western New Mexico University Cultural Affairs invites you to attend:
Accordionists Alejandro Brittes Trio with Gertie Lopez and the T.O. Boyz!
Thursday, September 19, 2024 at 7:00 p.m.
At Light Hall Theater
Brazil-based Argentine composer, accordionist, and researcher Alejandro Brittes explores the music and dance tradition of northeastern Argentina, chamame, which has been declared as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.
Alejandro navigates with his accordion, playing with the temporal universe of his music. He utilizes gravity to awaken the sensation that the music can touch your skin. A unique perception that the music fluctuates, and in listening to it, you enter into a space in which anything can happen around you without you event perceiving it.
Alejandro's concerts establish a connection with the earth, with the origins of the music of his home region and with the universe. His trademark is to employ his accordion as if it was a bandoneon, in conversation between the left and right hands. The basses of the left hand are masterfully explored, because according to Alejandro, the low basses connect us with the Earth, and the right button keyboard, beyond providing melody to the music, elevates us to the Universe.
His musicality and his compositions express an uncommonly diverse musical intellect.
The ancestral based rhythm connects the listener with the earth and the universe through music. Connecting musicality and cosmovision (The cosmic worldview of a society or civilization), of the Indigenous Guarani and Baroque music within the context of Jesuit missions in a cultural microregion in Argentina, central and southern Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, that extend through watersheds and fresh water sources in these nations.
Gertie Lopez is celebrated Tohono O'odham accordionist, celebrated in the Tucson area for decades. She is revered as the only female band leader on the Tohono O'odham reservation.
The two bands will perform separately, and together.
You can purchase tickets here:
https://secure.touchnet.com/C22616_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=401
We hope to see you there!WNMU Accordionists Alejandro Brittes ...Date and Time
Thursday Sep 19, 2024
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM MDTLocation
Light Hall Theater
Western New Mexico University
1000 W. College Ave.Fees/Admission
$20 for tickets
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