Joseph Horowitz at Library of Congress

Date: March 15, 2008 (Saturday)
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M.
Place: Room LJ 119, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress

Moderator Georgette M. Dorn, Chief of the Hispanic Division at the Library of Congress leads discussants Joseph Horowitz, Artistic Director of the Post-Classical Ensemble, Roberto Kolb, Gregorio Luke, Leonora Saavedra, Barbara Tenenbaum, and Sergio Vela. This will be an open discussion, following a panel on cultural context, part of "Two Faces of Mexican Music: Carlos Chávez (1899-1978) and Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940) Revisited" running March 11 - 16, 2008, at the Library of Congress.

PCE Performs Revueltas at Library of Congress

Date: March 14, 2008 (Friday)
Time: 8:00 P.M (Pre-concert Prelude at 6:15 P.M.)
Place: Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress (directions)

Eugenia Leon, vocalist, joins the Post-Classical Ensemble for chamber music, poetry, and popular song, celebrating Mexico’s revolutionary 20th-century “sound muralist,” Silvestre Revueltas, whose pulsing sonic canvases parallel in music the achievements of Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros in visual art.


If there is a Latin American composer whose “time has come” it is surely Silvestre Revueltas. For one thing, Revueltas is the composer who most resonates with the charismatic Mexico of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. For another, he is the rare 20th century composer whose voice is both original and instantly recognizable. A program incorporating popular song and poetry as part of a four-day Library of Congress festival: “Two Faces of Mexican Music: Chávez and Revueltas Revisited.”