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 Katonah, NY - Sonidos Latinos, Caramoor’s Latin American music initiative, heats up with an all-Tango program in the Venetian Theater on Sunday, July 13 at 4:30pm: Buenos Aires Now – Tango After Piazzolla.
Regarded as the father of the modern Tango, which was well known only as a strikingly dramatic dance, Astor Piazzolla elevated and introduced its form and feeling into concert music. Buenos Aires Now explores how composers since have taken up Piazzolla’s call.
Featured in Buenos Aires Now are Paquito D’Rivera, clarinetist and Caramoor’s Composer-in-Residence, Marco Granados, flutist and Sonidos Latinos Artistic Advisor and a star-studded cast of musicians deeply versed in this vibrant art form: Pablo Aslan, bass; Emilio Solla, piano; Fernando Otero, piano; Nicolas Danielson, violin; Raul Jaurena, bandoneón; and Ayano Kataoka, marimba.
Sonidos Latinos, now in its second year, is made possible by generous support from the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. In addition to events at Caramoor, the initiative also includes outreach events across Westchester County and radio broadcasts of performances at Caramoor.
TICKETS
Tickets for Buenos Aires Now – Tango After Piazzolla are $17.50, $25.00, $32.50, and $40.00 and may be ordered by calling the Caramoor Box Office at 914.232.1252 or online at www.caramoor.org.
This performance is also one of several Caramoor Al Fresco events, offering audience members the opportunity to enjoy the sounds of the concert from the picnic grounds for only $9.00 per ticket. An ideal way to introduce family audiences to great music, the remaining Al Fresco events this summer are the Emerson String Quartet on July 20, and the Caramoor Virtuosi on July 27. All are Sunday afternoon performances at 4:30pm.
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts is located at 149 Girdle Ridge Road, Katonah, New York.
BUENOS AIRES NOW ARTISTS
Pablo Aslan
Argentine born bassist and producer Pablo Aslan’s latest CD, Buenos Aires Tango Standards, features a unique blend of tango and jazz in performances of tango standards. In April 2007, Mr. Aslan was a special guest in "Todo Tango" with Arturo O'Farrill’s Lincoln Center Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. He has been a guest artist with Chamber Music at Lincoln Center, Chamber Music Northwest and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and he was the founder and co-director of New York Buenos Aires Connection and New York Tango Trio with bandoneónist Raul Jaurena, with whom he produced several CDs and toured throughout the world. He has also been a featured artist of the Lincoln Center Institute since 1998.
Paquito D’Rivera
Caramoor’s 2007-08 Composer-in-Residence, Paquito D’Rivera was a child prodigy on the clarinet and saxophone and performed with the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra at a very early age. He founded the Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna and Irakere, whose explosive mixture of jazz, rock, classical and traditional Cuban music was a groundbreaking addition to the Cuban musical milieu. His discography includes over 30 solo albums, and he has appeared in solo performances throughout the world. In 2005, the multi-Grammy® Award winner was the recipient of the National Medal of the Arts, the highest award given to artists and arts patrons by the United States government. D’Rivera’s Concerto for Double Bass, Clarinet/Alto Saxophone and Orchestra (Conversations with Cachao), commissioned by Caramoor, received its world premiere during last summer’s Caramoor International Music Festival.
Marco Granados
Marco Granados’ composition, The Venezuelan Suite, received its world premiere last summer at Caramoor, where the acclaimed composer and flutist is Musical Advisor to the Sonidos Latinos initiative. Since his 1991 New York debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, his performance highlights have included concerts at Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, the 92nd Street Y, the 1999 British Flute Society International Convention in Manchester, England, as well as his thrilling performance at the closing ceremonies concert for the National Flute Association in Columbus, Ohio in 2000. In 2001, he made his London debut at the famed Wigmore Hall with a solo recital of classical Latin American compositions, as well as recitals at The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and for the British Flute Society at Queens College in London. Over the past several years, he has been a favorite performer at flute festivals throughout the U.S. and abroad.
ABOUT CARAMOOR
Caramoor is the legacy of Walter and Lucie Rosen, who built the great house and filled it with their treasures. Walter Rosen was the master planner for the Caramoor estate, bringing to reality his dream of creating a place to entertain friends from around the world. Their musical evenings were the seeds of today’s International Music Festival. Realizing the pleasure their friends took in the beauty of Caramoor – the house with its art collection, the gardens, and the musical programs on summer evenings – in 1946 the Rosens gave Caramoor to the public.
Lucie Rosen survived her husband by seventeen years. During those years, she expanded the Music Festival: the Spanish Courtyard was used as a setting for musical events, as it is today, and, under her direction, the great stage of the Venetian Theater was built.
Caramoor is a Garden of Great Music. “We invite people to come early, explore our beautiful grounds, take a tour of the House Museum, visit our gift shop, enjoy a pre-concert picnic, and discover beautiful music in a relaxed setting,” encourages Paul Rosenblum, Caramoor’s Managing Director. With its unique heritage, Caramoor remains a place where magical summer days and nights are shared and enjoyed by thousands. “Caramoor is the loveliest Festival of them all.” - The New York Times
Art and Gardens
Concerts take place in two outdoor theaters: the large, acoustically superb Venetian Theater and the more intimate, romantic Spanish Courtyard. Caramoor is more than just music – there is beauty at every turn. The House Museum, the former summer home of Caramoor’s founders, Lucie and Walter Rosen, contains a vast collection of Renaissance, 18th-century, and Eastern art objects, including furniture, tapestries, sculpture, paintings, textiles, porcelain, and jade in twenty rooms that are open to the public. There are entire rooms that were imported from European palaces and villas. In fact, Caramoor is one of just five mansions in the country that incorporate entire rooms into its collection. On Thursdays and Fridays, afternoon tea is served in the Summer Dining Room, overlooking the charming Spanish Courtyard.
Caramoor’s gardens are also well worth the visit and include nine unique perennial gardens. Among them are a Sense Circle for the visually handicapped, a Butterfly Garden, Tapestry Hedge, and an Iris and Peony Garden, which may be enjoyed on one’s own or seen on a guided tour.
Enjoy a Picnic at Caramoor
Extend your Caramoor experience by arriving for concerts early and enjoying a picnic amidst the beautiful gardens. Bring your own picnic or pre-order from Great Performances® by calling 212.337.6055.
House Museum
Guided tours of the House Museum are provided from Wednesday through Sunday, 1:00pm-4:00pm with the last tour at 3:00pm. On Saturdays, during the Festival, tours are given from 1:00pm-5:00pm, with the last tour at 4:00pm. Tickets are $10 (children 16 and under free).
GETTING TO CARAMOOR
Caramoor is easy to get to by car and mass transportation.
By car from the West Side of Manhattan and New Jersey, take the Saw Mill River Parkway north to Katonah. Exit at Route 35/Cross River. Turn right and, at the first traffic light, make a right turn onto Route 22 south. Travel 1.9 miles to the junction of Girdle Ridge Road. Follow the signs to Caramoor. (For detailed directions call 914.232.5035 and press 2, or online at www.caramoor.org). Parking at Caramoor is free.
By train, take the Harlem Division of the Metro-North Railroad to Katonah, New York. Taxi service from the station to Caramoor (five minutes away) is available.
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