Upcoming Vocal Activities

The Chilean painter, researcher, pedagogue, and modernist composer Carlos Isamitt Alarcón (1885-1974) began to make foundational contributions to Chilean arts institutions in the 1920s. As director of the School of Fine Arts in 1927, he launched an unprecedented reform in the teaching of visual and applied arts based on popular and indigenous practices which he had studied since the first decade of the 20th century. Later, in the 1930s, he spent long periods living together with indigenous Mapuche people in their territory, enabling him to compile a rich documentary collection of songs, dances, ceremonies, and musical instruments, among other community practices.

In this hybrid lecture/performance, the musicologist Freddy Chávez Cancino will be joined by pianist Elizabeth Mendieta and vocalists Belem Abraham and Claudia Leyton. They will share musical examples from Isamitt’s folkloric collections and discuss how these materials became the basis for new pedagogies of visual and musical arts, and for the creation of innovative musical works.

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