ZARABANDA VARIATIONS
May 19 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
An AMOC* Production
Zarabanda Variations
KEIR GOGWILT, composer and violinist
CHRISTOPHER OTTO*, violinist
FRANCESCA MCNEELEY*, cellist
CARRIE FREY*, violist
WILFRIDO TERRAZAS*, flutist
KYLE MOTL*, bass
ALEC GOLDFARB*, guitarist
JONNY ALLEN, percussionist
MARIANA FLORES BUCIO*, vocalist
*denotes guest artist
Conceived by AMOC* violinist and composer Keir GoGwilt, Zarabanda Variations bring together a group of visionary composers, improvisers, and performers, inspired by musical histories of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mexico. The zarabanda is a dance with possibly Spanish, American, and Arab origins, a plausible etymology from the Bantu nsala-banda, which eventually transformed into a courtly European Baroque dance. This performance sounds the archival gaps of early American music, creating a surprising and vibrant synthesis of European and Latin Baroque, folk, and contemporary musical traditions.