Voice Workshops in Spanish/English
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Music Education and the Furthering of Bolivian Baroque Music
For the last 4.5 years, Jodi has been working and volunteering as Music Professor in Bolivia. The work includes preparing Bolivian Baroque Music for local and International festivals along with other choral directing and voice teaching. Bolivian Baroque music is original to Bolivia and was written by Jesuit missionaries who lived and worked in small mission pueblos of Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay and Ecuador. The 1986 movie, "The Mission" starring Robert DeNiro, Jeremy Irons and Lium Neesun explores this history. These Jesuit communities were persecuted against by the Spanish conquistadors and many cultural elements were lost. However, in the last 50 years, original music manuscripts have been re-discovered and re-published. This work has been made possible by Padre Piotre Nawrot, a Catholic priest and musicologist who has devoted his life to redistributing and re-educating this Baroque music back into Bolivian culture through music schools and music festivals. It is an exciting vision and one that has spurred the bi-ennial International Baroque Festival put on by APAC (ASSOCIATION PRO ARTE AND CULTURE) in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
Here is an excerpt from the APAC website:
The old Jesuit missions of Chiquitos in the department of Santa Cruz (1691-1767) and those of Moxos in the department of Beni (1681-1767) constitute one of the main riches of regional and national cultural heritage. During the process of restoration of the Jesuit temples of these missions, a musical wealth of great magnitude was discovered: in Chiquitos 5,500 and in Moxos, 7,000 sheets of sacred music written between the 17th and 18th centuries, both by European musicians and by the natives of the zone and that was interpreted daily in these towns until the middle of the XIX century.
Added to this treasure is the UNESCO declaration in 1990 that named six villages of Chiquitos as Cultural Patrimony of Humanity as "living peoples", since unlike other ancient Jesuit towns that only remain ruins, in Chiquitos they are still preserved its beautiful churches, the musical scores, its customs, clothes, parties, ceremonies, manufacture of instruments and many of them the musical tradition.
Here is an excerpt from the APAC website:
The old Jesuit missions of Chiquitos in the department of Santa Cruz (1691-1767) and those of Moxos in the department of Beni (1681-1767) constitute one of the main riches of regional and national cultural heritage. During the process of restoration of the Jesuit temples of these missions, a musical wealth of great magnitude was discovered: in Chiquitos 5,500 and in Moxos, 7,000 sheets of sacred music written between the 17th and 18th centuries, both by European musicians and by the natives of the zone and that was interpreted daily in these towns until the middle of the XIX century.
Added to this treasure is the UNESCO declaration in 1990 that named six villages of Chiquitos as Cultural Patrimony of Humanity as "living peoples", since unlike other ancient Jesuit towns that only remain ruins, in Chiquitos they are still preserved its beautiful churches, the musical scores, its customs, clothes, parties, ceremonies, manufacture of instruments and many of them the musical tradition.