New work fused American jazz and rock with Mexican congo, pop, Tejano and cumbia to create a toe-tapping sonic kaleidoscope. Then there was the Rach 2.
Cathalena E. Burch There was no EDM blasting from Linda Ronstadt Music Hall on Friday, Nov. 11, but Juan Pablo Contreras's"MeChicano" surely matched the energy coming from the sixth annual Dusk Music Festival stages at nearby Jacomé Plaza downtown.
People are also reading… "MeChicano" plays like a 1980s Saturday night dance party that newly minted Mexican-Americans threw to help them find their musical and cultural Chicano identities, Contreras explained in remarks to the audience before Friday's concert. The piece opened with a sterling trumpet line that hung in the backdrop when the strings and woodwinds joined in with a lush, almost cinematic melody.
Friday's concert, part of the orchestra's season-long"¡Celebración latina!" series, also introduced Tucson to Russian-American piano virtuoso Natahsa Paremski, whose breathtaking performance of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 anchored the concert's first half. Friday's concert, which repeats Sunday, Nov. 13, ended with Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 4"Inextinguishable," the first time the TSO has performed the work since 2005.
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