Sinfonia Latina
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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)
Sinfonia Latina is a music concert 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 with an estimated 4,000 surrounding building.[citation needed]
The event opened with a live classical pianist performing Bach preludes, followed by a painter [whipping? ripping?] color out white canvas. A dancer appeared during the final movement, ending with balloons rising from the orchestra pit with rock and roll encores.[citation needed]
El Heraldo reported on May 8,1976 "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."ithe result was beautiful"[citation needed]
On May7,1976 the editor of the el heraldo wrote,
The movements were enigmatically 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.[citation needed]
Regarded at the time as a pivotal moment outside the norm for its poetry and music, Roberto McCausland-Dieppa composed, directed and conducted the performance.[citation needed]
As part of the larger counterculture generation of the time, the music gained attention for having fused, Rock, Jazz, Spanish, and Afro-Caribbean music into a classical format.[citation needed]
The event was covered by regional and national news media, produced by Midnight Sun Productions.[citation needed]