CAPILLA DEL SOL - Viceroyalty Music "On the Wings of the Condor"

Description

The Andean Condor is the largest flying bird in the world, with a majestic appearance that has made it a sacred animal for many indigenous peoples of South America. It lives along the entire Andes mountain range, from Patagonia to Colombia, flying over the highest points of the continent.

This concert proposes a journey “as a condor flies” listening to the music of the main baroque towns and villages of South America, from the distant Jesuit missions among the Mapuches, in Patagonia, to the Viceroyalty of New Granada, passing through the main urban centers that settled in the mountain range and its surroundings (Santiago, Potosí, La Paz, Cuzco, Lima, Quito and Bogotá). The musical story is completed with the reading of texts from the 17th and 18th centuries that complement the soundscape.