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2022-01-05 10:08:48
Choir of Puebla Cathedral (Photo by Gusvel / Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0) Christmas in Puebla; Siglo de Oro, Patrick Allies; Wigmore Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 31 December 2021 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) Bursting with life, the music from 17th century Puebla in Mexico shows how the sacred and secular intertwine in this engagingly delightful programmeThe New Year's Eve gala concert at Wigmore Hall on 31 December 2021 formed a delightful conclusion to this year's concert going. Christmas in Puebla featured Siglo de Oro, artistic director Patrick Allies in music associated with Puebla Cathedral in Mexico, a pilgrimage church in what was then New Spain. The programme centred on Juan Gutierrez de Padilla, his Missa Joseph fili David alongside lighter, more secular-influence works by Padilla and his contemporaries. Allies directed an ensemble that consisted of nine singers and a varied instrumental ensemble of two guitars, baroque harp, bass […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2021-02-03 16:29:00
A Leading Classics Scholar Condemns Classics As A Field
Dan-el Padilla Peralta’s “vision of classics’ complicity in systemic injustice is uncompromising, even by the standards of some of his allies. He has condemned the field as “equal parts vampire and cannibal” — a dangerous force that has been used to murder, enslave and subjugate. “He’s on record as saying that he’s not sure the […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2021-02-02 15:30:38
America’s Leading Black Classics Scholar Says The Field Needs A Complete Overhaul. Is That Even Possible?
Dan-el Padilla Peralta came to the U.S. from the Dominican Republic at age 4 and grew up extremely poor; it was his childhood fascination with ancient Greece and Rome, combined with his academic talents, that got him school scholarships and pulled him out of poverty and into a professorship at Princeton. Today he argues that […]
2020-12-03 07:36:02
[…] Britten's A Ceremony of Carols in various different combinations of forces. Alongside discs from Christmas regulars, it is nice to see other choirs such as Clifton Cathedral Choir, and the choir of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Perhaps the most surprising disc is a large scale work for male voice choir, children's choir and orchestra by a Georgian composer, definitely one of my highlights this year. Around 1620, the Spanish composer Juan Gutierrez de Padilla left Spain and travelled to the Americas and found a position at the cathedral in Puebla in what was then New Spain (now Mexico). Siglo de Oro and Patrick Allies' Christmas in Puebla on Delphian seeks to recreate what Christmas would have been like in Puebla Cathedral in the mid 17th century, combining the high Baroque of Padilla's Missa Joseph fili David with the lively villancicos of local composers, many using indigenous languages. These […]