Juilliard415 | Corelli in Chiquitos: Music from the Missions

Juilliard415 | Corelli in Chiquitos: Music from the Missions

Sunday, May 18, 2025, 4:00PM

Tickets $5-60

  • Corpus Christi Church
  • 529 W 121st St, New York, NY 10027

Program information:

Robert Mealy, Director
Juilliard415
Juilliard Community Chorus
Presented by Music Before 1800

In this vibrant program from the missions of Bolivia and Peru, Juilliard415 explores the intersections of global and local Baroque. In the mid-18th century, Jesuit missionaries brought Corelli, Vivaldi, Locatelli, and others to their new missions in Chiquitos, in southeastern Bolivia. Versions of these pieces survive today in the archives of the Chiquitanía, alongside anonymous sonatas and motets, some in the indigenous languages of the region.

The program traces the arrival of European religious music and its transformation inside the church, then turns to popular music outside the church with some of the surviving indigenous dances and songs of Peru from the Codex Martinez Compañón, along with folk-influenced songs by Juan de Araujo and Tomás de Torrejón.

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