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SUMMARY:CLACS/Music Department WCLC event: Mbaporenda (La Esperanza) By R
 afael Montero (World Première) and associated events 
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DESCRIPTION:This concert is organised by the Music Department and also fo
 rms part of the events series of the Centre for Latin American and Carib
 bean Studies.\n\nThe Thursday lunchtime concerts are part of the Walter 
 Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series\, which is supported by the Ida Carroll
  Trust. They provide a wide-ranging programme to suit all tastes and are
  an ideal opportunity to enjoy great music performed by outstanding musi
 cians. There’s no need to book – the concerts are free\, and you can jus
 t turn up on the day!\n\nPLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS ON A THURSDAY\n\nTHUR
 SDAY 12 March 13.10 (UK time). The concert will be in person\, in the Co
 smo Rodewald Hall\, Martin Harris Centre. Related events will be held in
  the Manchester Museum and room G16\, Martin Harris Centre\n\nMbaporenda
  is a musical stage work based on historical events that have shaped the
  destiny of the Ava Guarani\, Chorote\, and Wichi cultures of the Jujuy 
 region in Argentina. The work presents Indigenous songs from Northern Ar
 gentina including those extracted under conditions of duress by a German
  anthropologist\, Robert Lehmann Nitsche\, in 1905. The singers were bei
 ng held in bonded labour on a sugar plantation\, La Esperanza\, in the J
 ujuy province that was owned and managed by British industrialists from 
 Rochdale\, the Leach Brothers. Lehmann Nitsche recorded the songs on wax
  cylinders (an early recording device) and brought them to Berlin\, wher
 e they remain in the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv\, of the Humboldt Forum.
 \n\nMbaporenda mixes extracts from these songs with accounts from the di
 aries of Lehmann Nitsche and other textual materials to tell a profoundl
 y moving story of exploitation of Indigenous South American people by Eu
 ropean colonialists\, but also of the resilience of the Indigenous voice
  and its ever-present call for justice and reparation.\n\nThe project is
  the original conception of the Argentinian tenor Rafael Montero\, found
 er and artistic director of the early music ensemble El Parnaso Hyspano\
 , and a descendent of the people whose songs are represented in this com
 position.\n\nThe work lasts 40 minutes and is made up of 9 scenes of app
 roximately 4 minutes duration each.\n\nThis concert is organised by the 
 Music Department and also forms part of the events series of the Centre 
 for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.\n\nThe Thursday lunchtime conc
 erts are part of the Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series\, which is 
 supported by the Ida Carroll Trust. They provide a wide-ranging programm
 e to suit all tastes and are an ideal opportunity to enjoy great music p
 erformed by outstanding musicians. There’s no need to book – the concert
 s are free\, and you can just turn up on the day!\n\nFollowing the conce
 rt\, participants are invited to come along to Manchester Museum's Cafe 
 to chat with performers and organisers. Participants can also attend an 
 object session\, coordinated by Dr Alexandra Alberda (curator of Indigen
 ous Perspectives at the Museum)\, focusing on the museum’s South America
 n collections. Spaces for the session will be limited. Details to follow
  on the day\, after the concert. \n\nFinally\, a free public roundtable 
 exploring the issues of the colonial misappropriation of songs raised by
  Ñandereko will follow as part of the Music Department’s weekly research
  seminar series. The roundtable will be introduced and chaired by John S
 loboda (Emeritus Professor\, Guildhall School of Music & Drama)\, with t
 he participation of Rafael Montero\, along with Alexandra Alberda (curat
 or of Indigenous Perspectives\, Manchester Museum)\, Caroline Bithell (P
 rofessor of Ethnomusicology\, University of Manchester)\, Jon Mitchell (
 Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology\, University of Sussex)\, and 
 David Stirrup (Professor of English\, University of York). The roundtabl
 e will be held at at 4.30 pm in room G16\, in the Martin Harris Centre. 
 \n\n
STATUS:TENTATIVE
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Cosmo Rodewald Hall\, Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama\,
  Manchester
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