Undermain Theatre is proud to present Open Classical in a program featuring pianist Masaru Sakuma, soprano Allison Stanford-Jones, and violinist/violist Mark Landson in a concert of beautiful and powerful Bolivian song and chamber music. Ms Stanford-Jones was the 2018-2019 Fulbright U.S. Scholar to the Bolivian Plurinational Conservatory of Music, where she taught voice, researched Bolivian art song, and performed in many concerts in Bolivia. In La Paz, she premiered the leading female role in El Compadre, composed by the important Bolivian composer Nicolás Suárez, and became enthralled with his song cycle “Monologues of the Desert”, which you will hear on this program.

Masaru Sakuma hails from La Paz, Bolivia, and first collaborated with Allison in a 2011 concert at the Goethe Institute in La Paz in which they performed works by Bach and Schubert. Over the years, both Masaru and Allison continued to perform, research, and write about Bolivian art song, and collaborated long distance throughout the first year of the pandemic producing videos of some of their favorite pieces, which aired on Open Classical's At-Home Showcase Concerts.  Thanks to both Open Classical and Undermain Theatre, they are finally able to perform this beautiful music together in-person with a live audience.

1. Selections from Visperas (music of the Chiquitos missions) voice, violin, and piano
- Beatus ille servus
-Serve bone

2. Set of pieces by Antonio Ibanez Rodriguez
-Tierra Mia (voice and piano)
-Cancion y Danza No. 2 (violin and piano)
- Cantar Indio (voice and piano)
- Cancion y Danza No. 1 (violin and piano)

3. Kori Killa by Eduardo Caba (voice and piano)

4. Remembranza by Ramiro Soriano (violin and piano)

5. La Nina y el Arpa by Jaime Mendoza-Nava (voice and piano)

6. Tinku by Juan Antonio Rojas (violin and piano)

7.Monologos del Desierto by Nicolas Suarez Eyzaguirre (voice and piano)
-La Arena
-La Vision
-La Brisa

8. Scherzo by Juan Antonio Rojas (violin and piano)

9. Cifra de las Rosas (Cantar B) by Lola Sierra de Mendez (voice and piano)

10. Alma Crucena by Jorge Luna and Raul Otero Reiche (voice and piano)

11.Romance (a duo) by Nicolas Suarez (voice, viola, and piano)

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