Argentina and Brazil inaugurate the international Latin American project ‘Consonancias’

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The initiative aims to promote cultural exchange between the countries of South America, inviting orchestra conductors, performers, soloists, and composers to disseminate academic symphonic music from the American region.

On May 21, the international Latin American project “Consonancias” will be launched in Resistencia, beginning with the collaboration of Brazil and Argentina’s orchestras, aiming to integrate cultural differences through an enhancement of South American symphonic ensembles in a framework of love and peace.

In its first phase, the project will seek a cultural exchange between the countries of South America, inviting orchestral conductors, performers, soloists, and composers to disseminate the academic symphonic music of the American region.

On this occasion, the Brazil-Argentina match will take place, with the participation of the Orquesta Sinfónica del Chaco (Osch) and guests from the OSB Orquesta Filarmónica de São Paulo.

This inaugural event will include the exchange and the visit of the conductor of the orchestra of the OCB Philharmonic Orchestra of Sao Paulo, Marco Martins Araujo, and the participation of the clarinet soloist Alphonso Melo Silveira from Brazil.

Initially, the action will focus on Brazil and Argentina, and in the not-too-distant future will include other countries to create a sizeable symphonic orchestra circuit that will consist of the three Americas – North, Central, and South America – and will be a vehicle for integration, democratization, and access to the cultural development of the people.

The project is led by a Board of Directors composed of Mauricio Charbonnier (Argentine) in the General Directorate, Marcos Martins Araujo in the Executive Directorate in Brazil, and Jorge Doumont in the Executive Directorate in Argentina, and Alphonso Melo Silveira in the Directorate for Programming Soloists and International Guests.

The repertoire for the exchange between Argentina and Brazil consists of the following compositions:

Arturo Márquez: “Leyenda de Miliano “Written in honor of Emilio Zapata, this work was premiered in 2010. It belongs to the national symphonic repertoire of Mexico and is characterized by sounds that seem to repeat the famous movement “Tierra y Libertad” of the Caudillo Emiliano Zapata.

Mauricio Charbonnier: “Lejanía” (Prelude) and “Springtime” (Romanza). Both works are written for clarinet and orchestra. It will be performed for the first time in Argentina by the Orquesta Sinfónica del Chaco, conducted by Brazilian conductor Marcos Aurelio Martins Araujo and soloist Alphonso Melo Silveira, Brazilian clarinetist.

The Romanza “Spring Time,” with its brisk rhythm and calm melody, “wanted to be a means of expression in these times of desolation and confinement, in search of some light and beauty in a moment of total anguish that humanity is going through,” the composer said, adding “spring as a symbol that everything is blossoming again,” betting “that the world is beginning a new time of chance and brotherhood.”

Franz Schubert: “Symphony No. 5 in B flat major D.485

Camargo Guarnieri is the most performed Brazilian composer after Héctor Villalobos. Before his death, he received the “Gabriela Mistral” award as the greatest composer in the Americas.

The exchange of artistic and cultural experiences at a high level will undoubtedly establish a relationship between the two countries, bringing together different cultural managers in a mutually enriching way, allowing the projection of a social change from each of the participants, including the audience, so that they can find their growth through the musical experience.

During the project’s development, a series of concerts in different theaters and venues is proposed for 2022 to exchange and visit orchestra conductors, soloists, and composers.

Thus, on May 21, at the Teatro “La Máscara” in Resistencia, a tremendous symphonic music corridor will be inaugurated with participation and exchange, aimed at respecting one’s own and foreign cultures discovering, through music, the peculiarity of these two South American countries.