Sinfonia Latina

• Comment: After reading this, I'm not sure what this is. An art event? A concert? Is it considered a landmark event in the culture of Columbia? 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 22:18, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

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Sinfonia Latina

Sinfonia Latina was a music concert and event which became a festival. Held at the municipal theater in Barranquilla, Colombia. The first performance took place on May 7, 1976, attracting an indoor audience of 3,000 and an estimated 4,000 outside the building.

The event opened with a live classical pianist performing Bach preludes, followed by a painter [whipping? ripping?] color out of a canvas. A dancer appeared during the final movement, ending with balloons rising from the orchestra pit with rock and roll encores.

El Heraldo commented, "Sixteen musicians descended onto the stage, unveiling their instruments, (percussion, brass, strings, and piano), at their best. The voices and the choir added into the sound dreamed by Roberto McCausland singing in Spanish the poem Sinfonia Latina.

The movements were enignatically titled: Overture:The Dreams of Madame Mazhari, The Unveiled Nibelungen and Scherzo: Lightning-Luminous Franco and the Flashing Spain.

"More Music than Hair"

Billed as "a different type of concert", the event was the first to be presented at the Municipal Theater while the venue was still under construction. Today, the facility is known as the "Teatro Amira De la Rosa" of Barranquilla.

Regarded at the time as a pivotal moment outside the norm for its poetry and music, Roberto McCausland composed, directed and conducted the performance.

As part of the larger counterculture generation of the time, the music gained attention for having fused, Rock, Jazz, Spanish and AfroCaribbean music into a classical format.

The event was covered by regional and national news media, produced by Midnight Sun Productions.

Sinfonia Latina was a music event and concert which took place in a theatre under construction with public attendance beyond capacity and expectation. .The program's first performance occurred on May 7, 1976 in Barranquilla, Colombia, as a rebuttal to contemporary social and artistic expression and challenging the status quo of its time.

A response by the young, avant garde, contrarian culture towards the upper social classes and formality, fusing rock, jazz, Spanish and Caribbean rhythms, the event and music centered around a poem, in Spanish, Al Mar De la Montaña, inspired by the Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus in objective direct protest.

At least two of the titled movements bear reference to freedom seekers: the expatriate heroes from the Spanish Civil War and Emiliano ZapataThe event created impetus towards social and artistic openness and expression, including motivating the city's politicians to finish construction of the municipal theater, now the Teatro Amira de la Rosa, and the acceptance of pop music, culture and thought into mainstream culture .

The music was written between 1975-76 for Caribbean orchestra, composed, directed and conducted by Roberto McCausland-Dieppa. Al Mar de la Montaña the poem, also written by Mr. Dieppa, appears to be dated some time before the music was written .

The event was produced by Mauricio Zapata. It was the first time an eclectic audience from all social strata, liberals, conservatives, social activists, and progressives came together for the enjoyment of a musical event in the region.