Past Concerts
Latin-Baroque Fiesta:
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, join us for an immersive musical voyage that traverses the vibrant landscape of Ibero-American music. This program celebrates the rhythmic pulse and soulful melodies that emerged from the meeting of worlds, where the exuberant energy of the Fiesta meets the bittersweet longing for a distant homeland.
The Other Mary
For 2,000 years, the Virgin Mary has been a central representation of the Divine Feminine. While modern mainstream art tends to portray her through a Eurocentric lens, history and music tell a broader story. Across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, in fact, old artifacts and records reveal a rich tradition of a dark-skinned “Other Mary”.
Fiesta de Navidad: A Holiday Celebration!
This concert invites you to celebrate the Nativity with luminous compositions from across Ibero-America—works that offer tender praises for the newborn child.
Weaving Music Threads: A Hispanic Celebration
This concert explores Renaissance and Baroque Spanish and Portuguese traditions in dialogue with Latin American folk and popular music, highlighting the rich synthesis of African, Amerindian, and European influences. Focusing on Nativity texts, the program features villancicos of tender devotion alongside exuberant choral works filled with rhythmic vitality.
Latin-Baroque Fusion
The program draws from early Spanish and Portuguese music and connects it with contemporary Latin American popular and folk music. It presents the Latin American heritage and the region’s astonishing synthesis of African, Arabic, and European traditions in a unique fusion.
Women Classical Composers
This program presents music by Italian 18th century women composers working at the courts of Frederick the Great in Prussia and the House of Habsburg in Austria. These powerful monarchies sponsored both salon and stage, where passions ran high and the best musicians were hired.
Silkroad
Silkroad presents Train Station Trio, a series generating new music as part of Silkroad’s multi-year American Railroad project, an initiative led by Artistic Director Rhiannon Giddens that illuminates the impact the African American, Chinese, Indigenous, Irish, and other immigrant communities had on the creation of the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad and connecting railways in North America.
Fandango and Other Dances
This program features Ibero-American dances and song-dances, including folias, jácaras, and fandangos, from the Renaissance to the present.
Arlington Day
Rumbarroco will be performing a blend of music from cultures representing the inherent multiculturalism.
Love & Libations
La Donna Musicale explores the distinctive secular contributions of women composers from Paris to the French Baroque and Rococo genres of airs sérieux and airs à boire (serious and drinking songs).
More and More Morenas
La Donna Musicale and Rumbarroco continue a musical exploration that extends from the Iberian Renaissance to Indigenous and African-influenced folk traditions in contemporary South America.
Dancing Bridges
In these concerts, Rumbarroco focuses on the intercultural fusion between musical traditions, including early European music of the Renaissance and Baroque and its confluence with African, Amerindian, and Latin-American genres.
Latin-Baroque Celebration
Let’s celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month at the Arlington Town Day. Rumbarroco will be performing a blend of music from cultures representing the inherent multiculturalism of Latin America.
Nigra sum sed formosa: Morenas in Ibero-America
Making their BEMF début, La Donna Musicale and Rumbarroco perform songs and polyphonic settings that highlight “Morenas”—dark-skinned women—in the Ibero-American repertory.
O Maria! Mother and Warrior
La Donna Musicale presents a concert of Italian Baroque women composers.
For Venezuela
RUMBARROCO and the Venezuelan Association of Massachusetts invite you to celebrate Venezuelan Independence Day and Simon Bolivar’s birthday with music, Venezuelan treats, and the continuation of our humanitarian & educational campaign for Venezuela.
Thanks to the fundraising concert by Rumbarroco and La Donna Musicale in 2023.
Rumbarroco - Latin Baroque Musical Fusion
Rumbarroco is a multicultural fusion ensemble that draws from early Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American sources and connects them with contemporary popular and folk music of the Americas.
Outreach
Rumbarroco Outreach at Booker T Washington High School For the Performing Arts Sponsored by Orchestra of New Spain, Grover Wilkins 3d
Cross-Pollination and Transmutation
Music Outside the Court: Corpus Christi and Black Villancicos