Performances

Event Information

  • Wed
    24
    Jul
    2024

    Staunton Music Festival

    Trinity Episcopal Church
    214 W Beverley St, Staunton

    Staunton Music Festival

    Historias de Cuba

    Saturday, August 24, 2024 at 7:30 pm

    Trinity Episcopal Church
    214 W Beverley St, Staunton

    $22 – $38
    Discounts available for
    youth, college, & military

    Doors open 6:30 | Preconcert talk 6:45
    All seating is reserved.

    The sounds of Cuba provide the inspiration for this eclectic program, offering music by Gershwin, Gottschalk, Tania León, and Hans Werner Henze.

    Gershwin | Cuban Overture, for orchestra
    Salas | Cándido Corderito, for sopranos and strings
    Gottschalk | Souvenir de la Havane, for piano
    Brouwer | Two movements from Quintetto for Guitar and Strings
    Trad/arr. Tania León | El Manisero, for vocal ensemble
    Henze | from El Cimarrón, a music-drama for bass voice and chamber ensemble*

    * Based on the memoirs of an escaped slave, the text for El Cimarrón includes descriptions of enslaved individuals and may not be suitable for all ages.