LATINO MUSIC FESTIVAL

The 2008 Latino Music Festival opens with a series of more than 16 concerts of music featuring a wide spectrum of periods and styles. For more information: Latino Cultural Center.

By John von Rhein, Chicago Tribune, August 4, 2008

"Gustavo Leone's "Mundo," for voice and orchestra,

draws its vocal text from the Popol Vuh, the sacred book of the Mayans, evoking a sense of pre-Columbian culture. Its lush, movie/music-like scoring, laced with jungle drums and soaring vocal lines, reminds one of the Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos' "Forest of the Amazon." It's an unabashed crowd-pleaser, and soprano Michelle Areyzaga threw herself into it with rapturous expression and body language to match."

BOLEROS FOR THE DISENCHANTED

Incidental music for a play by Jose Rivera and directed by Henry Godinez.

For more information visit Goodman Theatre.

MUNDO

for voice and orchestra

The Symphonic Orchestra of Michoacan

As part of the International Music Festival of Morelia

Eduardo Sanchez Zuber, conductor, Maria Guadalupe Jimenez, voice

Tuesday, November 18

Morelia, Mexico

Eduardo Sanchez-Zuber, Conductor

COMO UN SUEÑO

for harp and orchestra, 2006, 20:00 approximately

Faye Seeman, harp, Brian Groner, conductor

Harper College Arts Center, Illinois

Sunday, October 12, 2008, 3:00PM

SEXTET

for flute, oboe, violin, viola, violoncello, and piano

Friday, October 10 at 8:00 p.m. and on

Sunday, October 12 at 3:00 p.m.

The International House at the University of Chicago and

Chicago Cultural Center, Preston Bradley Hall respectivelly

The Millennium Chamber Players: Robert Treviño, Conductor

MUNDO

for voice and orchestra

Friday, August 1 at 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, August 2 at 7:30 p.m.

Harris Theater

Grant Park Orchestra; Giancarlo Guerrero, Conductor

Some of Chicago’s best and brightest living Latin American composers

are highlighted at these Harris Theater concerts.

Works by Ricardo Lorenz, Gustavo Leone, Elbio Rodriguez Barilari,

and Osvaldo Golijov will be presented.

http://www.grantparkmusicfestival.com/schedule.shtml

THE LEADER

comic opera in one act based on Eugene Ionesco's play

Virginia Arts Festival, John Duffy Composers' Institute

May 26, 2008, Chandler Recital Hall, ODU, Northfolk

http://www.virginiaartsfest.com

BOLEROS FOR THE DISENCHANTED

by Jose Rivera, directed by Henry Godinez,

Gustavo Leone, composer

Yale Repertory Theatre

May 1-21, 2008

http://www.yalerep.org/boleros.html

2008

Gustavo Leone  Composer