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| Carpe Diem Quartet and Peter Soave “The Music of Aldemaro Romero”
Saturday, January 30, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Dunham Hall Theater
LIMITED SEATING The Carpe Diem String Quartet, whose recent CD was selected for the 2009 Grammy Awards Entry List in four categories, is a musical group that has captured the imagination of audiences around the world. Peter Soave is an internationally acclaimed bandoneon and concert accordionist.
Together, they will perform the music of the late Aldemaro Romero. Aldemaro Romero was an international recording star with RCA Victor and one of the foremost Latin music orchestra leaders in the world. In America, Romero’s reputation as an arranger-conductor led him to collaborate with popular orchestras and singers such as Dean Martin, big band bandleader Stan Kenton and popular Latin percussionist Tito Puente. Romero was credited with creating a new form of Venezuelan music, known as Onda Nueva (New Wave) that was influenced by Brazilian Bossa Nova rhythms. One of the pieces in this concert will be Romero’s Five Paleontological Mysteries for accordion and string quartet. Romero had Peter Soave in mind when he wrote this piece in honor of his son, Aldemaro Romero Jr., a biologist and SIUE’s new dean for the College of Arts and Sciences, who discovered five new fossils. Dean Romero will conduct this piece as well as the finale, Fuga con Pajarillo, a suite for strings in one movement based on actual South American bird songs. Fuga con Pajarillo will include a special video presentation celebrating SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences. Tickets available at the Fine Arts Box Office in Dunham Hall or by calling 650-5774.
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