The Bandoneón, presented by Emmanuel Trifilio, and the Charango, performed by Patricio Zamorano, complemented the orchestra and enhanced the atmosphere of the Spanish culture. The Bandoneón produces an accordion-like resonance, and it provided a vital element of beauty to the numbers. The Charango creates the timbre of a lute, and has been utilized by Spanish folk musicians for generations. The addition of these extraordinary instruments truly shaped the Latin American ambiance and brought the culture to the Christmas performance.
Originally published at Chileno.co.uk, England, on January 3, 2013. Or on how to assess the Chilean film “Violeta went to heaven” on opening night in Washington DC Patricio Zamorano Translation …
Guitarist-vocalist Patricio Zamorano provided a lovely and darkly authentic interlude highlighted by his masterful, fluid classical/flamenco guitar technique.
This flamboyant musician plays the grand piano like a virtuoso, at moments like a possessed demon, releasing the rip-tide tempo changes and atonality that hardly seem possible from a single keyboard. And throughout both acts, flamenco guitarist Patricio Zamorano’s spirited strumming adds the otherworldly duende-dimension– the deep and sad, soul sound of the flamenco.
Have you ever seen a show and heard something you know you’ve heard before and thought, “That’s from an opera?” So it was with La Vida Breve, the In Series charming production of this iconic but rarely performed Spanish opera by Manuel De Falla and libretto by Carlos Fernandez Shaw. It is performed in Spanish with English surtitles.
Lectura poética presentada por el premiado escritor argentino Luis Ambroggio, junto a las destacadas poetas
Marthy Sánchez-Lowery y Gladys Ilarregui. El cantautor Patricio Zamorano y su banda de músicos interpretarán repertorio de trova para acompañar la celebración de independencia de Argentina.
The program features some of Washington’s finest bilingual poets sharing their stories and experiences of being Latino in the United States. Poets include Alberto Avendaño, Quique Avilés, Naomi Ayala, José Ballesteros, Consuelo Hernández, Samuel Miranda, Egla Morales and Carlos Parada. Luis Alberto Ambroggio, award-winning poet and co-editor of Al Pie de la Casa Blanca/At the Foot of the White House, a bilingual anthology of the work of Washington-based poets, moderates the evening, which also includes music by Patricio Zamorano and his band…
Until September 11, 2001, the car bombing on Massachusetts Avenue was the most infamous act of international terrorism ever to take place in our nation’s capital. On September 21, 1976 agents of the Augusto Pinochet regime planted a car bomb at this location which brutally took the lives but not the memory of two IPS colleagues, who fought for equality and justice through reason, not violence.
Until September 11, 2001, the car bombing on Massachusetts Avenue was the most infamous act of international terrorism ever to take place in our nation’s capital. On September 21, 1976 agents of the Augusto Pinochet regime planted a car bomb at this location which brutally took the lives but not the memory of two IPS colleagues, who fought for equality and justice through reason, not violence…
