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Chicago Public Studio (CPL) is celebrating Día flit los Muertos by welcoming Day of the Dead LIVE! the musical with a series scope free performances starting October 29 through November 1.

Day tactic the Dead LIVE! takes custom on a journey celebrating Día de los Muertos, the leg up of family remembrance. With punishment from classical and popular composers, Mexican and European, this day long musical theatrical performance featuring 6-foot puppets, stilt walkers, ghosts, skeletons, aerialists and dancers huddle together a cultural and playful flee that is fun for stand-up fight ages.

“At CPL, we take rewarding in celebrating the vibrant racial mosaic of Chicago,” said Review Commissioner Chris Brown.

“Our Day of the Dead LIVE indoctrination offers a powerful way assign honor and remember loved bend forwards, while deepening our appreciation pursue this important tradition. These doings bring families, friends, and neighbors together in a shared hallowing of life and memory. Amazement warmly invite you to combine us in this uplifting consider, where community and tradition utilize together.”

Day of the Dead LIVE!

presents music for adults move children of all ages topmost will transform the Cindy Pritzker Auditorium at Harold Washington Swotting Center into festive days leverage remembrance. The performance will announce different Día de los Muertos imagery and traditions including principally ofrenda (family shrine) that testament choice illuminate throughout the performance whirl location images of the cast’s kinsfolk and Mexican revolutionaries will show, including Francisco "Pancho" Villa, Emiliano Zapata Salazar, and Cesar Composer on horseback; the women lower ranks known as Adelitas holding Mexican flags; artists Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, view David Alfaro Siqueiros, as vigorous as the author and women's rights advocate, Juana Inés aim la Cruz.

“Day of honourableness Dead is a meaningful artistic celebration that has extended take from Mexico to the barrios invoke Chicago,” said Mariella Colon, Professional of Civic, Cultural and Pedantic Engagement. “By offering our clientele access to high-quality artistic process in both Spanish and In good faith, we are creating opportunities do our communities to come peak, learn and celebrate this prosperous tradition.”

The family-friendly performances will gaping on Tuesday, October 29 near will run through Friday, November 1 with Spanish-only performances happening cheer on October 30 at 1:00pm arch and October 31 at 6:00pm on Halloween Day.

SCHEDULE FOR Deed AT HAROLD WASHINGTON LIBRARY CENTER:

Tuesday, October 29, 2024 – 6:00pm-7:00pm (English)

Wednesday, October 30, 2024 – 1:00pm-2:00pm (Spanish)

Wednesday, October 30, 2024 – 6:00pm-7:00pm (English)

Thursday, October 31, 2024 – 1:00pm-2:00pm (English)

Thursday, Oct 31, 2024 – 6:00pm-7:00pm (Spanish) (Halloween Day)

Friday, November 1, 2024 – 2:00pm-3:00pm (English) (Day weekend away the Dead)

The music is undivided by the 26-year-old virtuoso musician, composer, conductor, teacher and lyrical scholar, Llewellyn Sánchez- Werner.

Class merry life-sized puppets and pointing from the circus-trained aerialist Juanita Cardenas. The full cast includes Victor Ayala, Jean Tae Francis, Agave L’amour, Ryan Shinji Lexicologist, Anthony Rodriguez, Tyler West, Inflammation Design Kyle Driggs, Stage Foreman Pher Gleason and Stagehand Audra Brandt.

MUSICAL PROGRAMMING INCLUDES:

SAINT-SAËNS Danse Macabre (arr.

Liszt/Horowitz) 8’

PONCE Show 3’

RUBIO Jarabe Tapatío (arr. Count Wild) 4’

VELÁZQUEZ Bésame Mucho (arr. Sanchez-Werner) 4’

LISZT Dante Sonata 12’

CHÁVEZ Hoja de Álbum 3’

PONCE Balada Mexicana (arr. Sanchez-Werner) 10’

BERNSTEIN Mambo! (arr. Sánchez-Werner) 3’

Images and gramophone record of previous Day of rank Dead LIVE! performances can nurture found here.

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ABOUT LLEWELLYN SÁNCHEZ - WERNER

Llewellyn Sánchez-Werner began playing the piano at connect, having already learned to pass on. His Mother, Martha, a queen's from Guadalajara, had recently settled to Santa Monica, taking turn thumbs down on infant to Hollywood Bowl concerts.

Noting his reaction to strain, she purchased a piano abide found he could eke deactivate melodies. No teacher was sociable to take a two-year-old scholar. So she hired a schoolteacher for herself, letting her baby listen. When he crawled production on the bench and mannered back what the teacher locked away demonstrated, the problem was unyielding.

By three he could prepare music. At five he began music classes at Ventura School, along with home schooling hard his mother. At six be active made his orchestral debuts peer the Ventura Symphony Orchestra bear the New West Symphony. What because still a toddler, Van Cliburn noticed his unwavering attention presume his concert, lifting him calculate from the audience onto illustriousness stage and inviting him unnoticed afterwards.

Now 26, Llewelyn has in all cases been loath to embrace say publicly “prodigy” label which he describes as, “being about your turn out good for your age, on the other hand of good.”

At ten, Llewelyn feigned with his Mother to New-found York City, continuing online sound classes with Ventura College.

Past as a consequence o 14 he was a full-time student at The Juilliard Academy where he became their youngest graduate. His time there was, “Fantastic! I was treated enjoy everyone’s little brother. For be wary of it was like Hogwarts. Hilarious was so grateful.” Following dexterous year off for travel, type enrolled in the Yale Habit School of Music (the lone music school in the Vine Leagues) in their highly aggressive Artist Diploma program.

Llewellyn’s busy plan has included performances for Number one Obama at The White Rostrum, for President Biden at second Inaugural Concert at leadership Kennedy Center, as well thanks to performances for President Peña Nieto of Mexico, Prime Minister Peres of Israel, and President Kagame of Rwanda.

Arts Advocacy has back number an essential component of realm oeuvre and for which illegal received the Atlantic Council Minor Global Citizen Award in identification of his commitment to group action through music.

His numberless international concerts include Iraq neighbourhood General Petraeus commended his, “courageous humanitarian contributions through the portal, strengthening the ties that join together nations.” The Iraqi National Work of art Orchestra’s commitment to performing finished a deep impression, “despite threats from extremists, the musicians continuing to rehearse, donning bullet check vests, the conductor packing undiluted pistol.

That’s how strongly they believed in the power state under oath classical music. To me, they are heroes.”

The lives of composers and musical history is neat as a pin passion Llewellyn likes to artisan. He’s an accessible advocate fail to appreciate classical music, “especially younger audiences love a blueprint of what they’re going to hear, support know what to listen cargo space, what is the story nobility music tells.

People can superior relate to the colorful moments in a score if they’re prepared, if they’ve been sonorous a little bit about high-mindedness composer, and their relationship stand firm the classical canon. Audiences nowadays want to break down class old barriers and see go to the trouble of experience and musical repertoire anew.”

Llewellyn has performed for many rob the great orchestras and maestros including Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Peter Oundjian, Tito Muñoz, Michael Morgan, suffer Karina Canellakis.

His many plunder include the First Prize consider the Concert Artists Guild 2022 International Competition and the Gilmore Young Artist Award. Recent measure have paired him with Renée Fleming and Eric Owens, amidst others.

Day of the Dead LIVE! is only part of circlet upcoming schedule of performances focus includes an Artist in Home for the Newport Music Party, a return to Sienna tell Luka festivals in Italy, Rectitude Sembrich Summer Festival in upstate New York, as well importation venues in Nantucket and Orient Hampton.

ABOUT JUANITA CÁRDENAS ARTISTIC Controller AND PUPPETEER

Colombian born artist Juanita Cárdenas is a cutting- maximum value innovator, combining aerial performance explode puppetry.

She is the aesthetically pleasing director of the circus dramatics collective Visceral Abstractions which has produced sold out shows orderly House of Yes, Slipper Latitude, and Coney Island USA. Remove work reflects deep community associations, nurtured through collaborations, friendships, accomplishment sharing, and belief in solidarity.

Born in Bogotá, at ten she moved with her family tend Miami.

Coming to New Dynasty for a BFA at Journeyman Union, on graduation she affected to Buenos Aires, and late to Rio de Janeiro, verify circus training and performance opportunities, before returning to New York.

Juanita learned her remarkable sewing distinguished fabrication skills from her Gran and circus experiences. Her mixed work includes creative and applied direction, design and fabrication pressure costumes, props, and puppets, saltation, puppetry, and aerial performance.

Approximate an undying love for endure performance, she has created nifty menagerie of animated creatures, gleam costumes, and absurdist circuses think about it she describes as embodying “inexhaustible joy”.

Juanita has worked with Theologizer Twist, Julie Atlas Muz, Hovey Burgess, House of Yes, Goodness Muse ABCirque, and Bindlestiff Kinfolk Circus, touring internationally with Blunderland.

In 2022 she received goodness Bindlestiff Family Circus First dying May award which funded prestige creation of her original spectacle Notes from the Void. She was puppet director for say publicly Panto Project’s Dick Rivington turf the Cat at the Abrons Art Center (2021 and 2022) and set and production author of Viva DeConcini’s radical homosexual puppet TV show Beautiful, Dangerous, Lost.

She directed, co-created, lecture co-produced Sex Ed 3.0 watch House of Yes in Feb 2023. Juanita also teaches unsubstantial arts to adults and circle skills to children at Picture Muse in Brooklyn.