MUSIC

Piffaro: Entre dos Álamos

TUESDAY, MAY 23, 2023
7:00 PM

Americas Society @ St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church
552 West End Avenue, Upper West Side, Manhattan

Free
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As I keep saying, Latin American Baroque music, its melodies enlivened by the local rhythms of the indigenes the Spanish converted and enslaved, is some of the most vivacious, fetching music you can hear (provided you can keep your mind off the backstory). The wind band Piffaro — hear joined by a vocal consort — specializes in Renaissance music, so this program focuses on the earliest such music. But they venture into later, more purely Baroque territory, too. There also appear to be some ringers on the program from the Spanish Renaissance: that music is pretty vivacious, too.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The neighborhood has certainly taken the Mediterranean Dagon to heart.