Pianist and composer Vicente L\u00f3pez performs a program largely based on the traditional music of his native Ecuador in a concert at 8 p.m. Friday, May 3, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College, 75 Russell Street. The concert is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n
A product of rural Ecuador, Vicente L\u00f3pez was born with a great musical gift, says his daughter, Patricia L\u00f3pez de Jaramillo. (She has taught at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ this academic year and is a founder and the academic director at the Andean Center for Latin American Studies in Quito, Ecuador.) <\/p>\n
Now 75 years old, L\u00f3pez earned a degree in piano from the National Conservatory of Music at the Central University of Ecuador. He taught music and served as a choral director early in his career, and continued to perform and compose even after leaving professional music.<\/p>\n
L\u00f3pez’s concert at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ will combine his own compositions with popular songs, a little Beethoven and Albeniz, and traditional music of Ecuador, which will constitute the program’s second half. That music explores such typical rhythms as the sanjuanito and the pasillo, which shows a strong indigenous Andean influence. L\u00f3pez’s own compositions include tributes to his wife and oldest son, who are deceased.<\/p>\n
L\u00f3pez makes music “with all his heart,” says his daughter. For her, his music conjures up a world of associations beyond the purely musical. “I just feel transported to all my ancestors, to all my background,” she says. “I feel like I am connected to so much life many, many years before my Dad.”<\/p>\n
For more information about the performance, please call 207-786-6135.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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