Performances

Event Information

• Sat

  24

  Aug

  2024

  Staunton Music Festival - Historias de Cuba

  7:30 pm

  Trinity Episcopal Church

  214 W Beverley St, Staunton Virginia

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

  Doors open 6:30 | Preconcert talk 6:45All 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.

  Historias de Cuba

  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.