QUE TUS OJOS NO SE CANSEN DE BRILLAR BY GABRIEL BOUCHE CARO

ON DEMAND

From live performance on Friday, December 9, 2022

LOCATION

Recorded at the AMERICAS SOCIETY, 680 Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York, NY

ABOUT THE CONCERT

Aliana de la Guardia performs in the world premiere of a new vocal chamber piece by the Puerto Rican composer, Gabriel Bouche Caro, commissioned by the Americas Society. The new song cycle is for clarinet, violin, flute, cello, percussion, piano, and soprano voice. This song cycle features selected texts by Giannina Braschi and other Puerto Rican authors and focuses on the ideas of identity in exile and “puertorriqueñidad” (what makes one Puerto Rican).

December 2022, Americas Society commissioned a program by Puerto Rican composer Gabriel Bouche Caro, which featured a new song cycle for clarinet, violin, flute, cello, percussion, piano, and voice (soprano). In the words of the composer, “this song cycle, featuring texts by Giannina Braschi (selected by the composer) and other Puerto Rican authors (selected by Braschi), will focus on the idea of “puertorriqueñidad” (what makes one Puerto Rican) and identity in exile.

This is a video of the concert on December 12, 2022 at Americas Society.

Program:

Gabriel Bouche Caro

"Que tus ojos no se cansen de brillar"

for soprano, clarinet, sax, electric guitar, violin, viola, and cello

Musicians:

Aliana de la Guardia, soprano

Gleb Kanasevich, clarinet

Thomas Giles, sax

Jay Sorce, guitar

Marina Kifferstein, violin

Carrie Frey, viola

Karlos Rodríguez, cello

Jessica Tsang, percussion

For more information, click here: https://www.as-coa.org/events/gabriel-bouche-caro-que-tus-ojos-no-se-cansen-de-brillar

Special thanks to: Met Life Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Howard Gilman Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts