2024 ¡Música del Corazón!9/2/2025 Sacred Choral Music and Ritual Dance on the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro: 1598-1821 ~ 11th Annual John Donald Robb, Jr. Memorial Concert Sunday 24 November 2024 FREE family-friendly community event 2pm round table 3pm concert UNM Keller Hall | directions FREE City of ABQ street & meter parking. FREE UNM surface lot parking at Central between Girard and Princeton | directions. Convenient paid parking at UNM Cornell Parking Structure | directions. View, download, print a complimentary 2024 Commemorative Program. Schedule Visit the John Donald Robb information table and meet members of the Robb Trust Board in the Keller Hall lobby. 2pm Preconcert round table (45 minutes)
3pm Concert (approx. 100 minutes)
Co-Curator Statement During Spanish colonial times, the church was the patron of the visual, musical, and dramatic arts. The Counter-Reformation generously financed artists and composers to lend their talents to inspire Catholics with the spectacles of their faith. Sacred music echoed daily, resonating from the great stone cathedrals of New Spain to the humble adobe churches of New Mexico. During the great Pueblo Revolt of 1680, churches and sacred art were destroyed in the northlands, along with all traces of the repertory of sacred music. However, evidence found along the Camino Real shows that music played a daily, vibrant role in the liturgical calendar, spanning from Advent to Pentecost. It flourished particularly during Christmas and Holy Week seasons, as well as in Marian feasts and celebrations of particular saints like St. Francis or Santiago. UNM Concert Chorus and Música Antigua de Albuquerque draw from the music of the Camino Real from Mexico City north, as well as from the 18th century California missions. The calendar also featured seasonal autos sacramentales or sacramental plays, especially the Pastorela or Christmas shepherd's plays and La Pasión, the Passion of the Christ. Numerous other plays celebrated everything from Adam and Eve to the Virgin of Guadalupe. All had their own distinctive music that offered a reprieve from the solemnity of the Mass. Sixty days after Easter, Corpus Christi provided an opportunity for even more celebration. Villancicos or carols were sung in Spanish and Native languages. On such special occasions, costumed dancers appeared in the Tocotín, a ritual dance of Mexican origin. Its cousin, the Matachines dance, dramatizes the spiritual Conquest of Mexico and celebrates the emergence of a new Indo-Hispano culture. It was performed in and out of church from Mexico City to Santa Fe, spilling onto plazas and streets. The sones that still accompany the masked dance in New Mexico are the most ancient instrumental music in the land. Our program honors dancers and musicians from La Merced del Cañón de Carnué, the land grant in the mountains east of Albuquerque, especially since John Donald Robb visited there and recorded the songs on many occasions. ~ Dr. Javier Marín-López, Sacred Choral Music Curator ~ Dr. Enrique Lamadrid, Ritual Dance Curator Educational Outreach Each year ¡Música del Corazón! delivers 'eduformaces' lasting approximately 30 to 90 minutes. Events feature artists performing in the annual November ¡Música del Corazón! concert. Educational Outreach presentations incorporate Northern New Mexico Spanish cultural history, dance, and music. All educational outreach events are free admission and the public is cordially invited to attend. Tentative 2024 Educational Outreach Events Friday 22 November 10:00am-11:00am Artist: Matachines de la Merced del Cañón de Carnué Location: National Hispanic Cultural Center ~ theatre to be announced Program: Matachines lecture-demonstration with student interaction Friday 22 November 1:00pm-2:00pm Artist: Matachines de la Merced del Cañón de Carnué Location: National Hispanic Cultural Center ~ theatre to be announced Program: Matachines lecture-demonstration with student interaction Friday 22 November 3:00pm-5:00pm Artists: UNM Concert Choir + Música Antigua de Albuquerque Location: University of New Mexico ~ Keller Hall Program: Open rehearsal + tour of Keller Hall / Center for the Arts (CFA) Additional education/outreach event to be announced. Production Guest Curators
Keller Hall
John Donald Robb Musical Trust
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