3G: Tres Generaciones Music Festival

A celebration of Composer Julio Estrada
and Three Generations of New Music from Mexico

10 WORLD PREMIERES  |   10 US PREMIERES

May 2-7, 2008   |   New York City

Tres Generaciones is a unique festival that brings the work of three generations of extraordinary living Mexican composers to New York City. The work of 14 established and emerging Mexican composers are featured in a variety of New York venues, as well as in lectures, public talks, broadcasts and outreach events throughout the city.

JULIO ESTRADA * IGNACIO BACA LOBERA * GERMÁN ROMERO * VICTOR ADÁN * JUAN JOSÉ BARCENAS * EDGAR GUZMÁN * JOSE LUIS HURTADO * VICTOR IBARRA * MARISOL JIMÉNEZ * SANDRA LEMUS * IVAN NARANJO * HIRAM NAVARRETE * MAURICIO RODRIGUEZ * WILFRIDO TERRAZAS

FRIDAY, MAY 2 @ 7:30pm

Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue
The Red Earth: Music of Julio Estrada
With: Víctor Adán, composer
FREE ADMISSION

MONDAY, MAY 5 @ 7:30pm

Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue
Ramas (Branches): Music of Germán Romero
With: Iván Naranjo, composer
FREE ADMISSION

TUESDAY, MAY 6 @ 7:30pm

Monkey West, 37 W. 26th Street, 12th Floor
50th Birthday Celebration: Music of Ignacio Baca Lobera
With: Edgar Guzmán, composer
FREE ADMISSION

WEDNESDAY, MAY 7 @ 7pm and 9pm DOUBLE BILL!

ICETank!
The Tank, 279 Church Street
Beyond the Borders of Sound: New Music by Young Mexican Composers
(Premieres by Marisol Jiménez, Víctor Ibarra, Hiram Navarrete, Mauricio Rodríguez, Juan José Barcenas, José Luis Hurtado, Edgar Guzmán, Víctor Adán, Sandra Lemus, Wilfrido Terrazas)
$5 AT THE DOOR, includes reception

The food for 3G’s Beyond the Borders of Sound
has been generously provided by Chavella’s Café Mexicano
on 732 Classon Ave between Park Place and Prospect Place in Brooklyn.
718.622.3100

About the composers…

 

The New Yorker, May 2, 2008
South of the Border

    

3G: Tres Generaciones Music Festival is generously supported by the Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, the Meet the Composer/JPMorganChase Regrant Program for Small Ensembles, the Aaron Copland Fund for Performing Ensembles, and by public funds from the City of New York, Department of Cultural Affairs.