The Oxnard College Foundation’s 4th Annual Tardeada will present the Core Ensemble performing the chamber music theater work “Tres Vidas” at 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22 at the Oxnard College Performing Arts Center.
Chamber music theater is a unique performance format developed by the Core Ensemble featuring a marriage of theatrical narrative to chamber music performance, the foundation reported in a media release. Roseanne Almanzar portrays multiple characters while interacting with the onstage musical trio of cello, piano and percussion.
Tres Vidas celebrates the life, times and work of three significant Latin and South American Women: painter Frida Kahlo of Mexico, peasant activist Rufina Amaya of El Salvador and poet
Alfonsina Storni of Argentina. With storylines including Frida Kahlo’s dramatic and passionate relationship with painter Diego Rivera, Rufina Amaya’s singular survival of the massacre at El Mozote and Alfonsina Storni’s lifelong challenges as Argentina’s first great feminist poet. “Tres Vidas” presents dramatic situations timeless in their emotional appeal and connection to audiences across all gender and ethnic spectrums. With a script written by Chilean poet/writer Marjorie Agosin, Tres Vidas offers powerful portrayals of each woman and includes the singing of traditional Mexican folk songs as well as Argentinean popular and tango songs made famous by Mercedes Sosa and Carlos Gardel.
Additional music by Astor Piazzolla, Orlando Garcia, Pablo Ortiz, Alice Gomez, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Michael DeMurga and Osvaldo Golijov round out the musical score.
Since 1993, the Core Ensemble has toured nationally to every region of the United States and internationally to England, Russia, the Ukraine, Australia and the British Virgin Islands.
The Ensemble was the recipient of the 2000 Eugene McDermott Award for Excellence in the Arts awarded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has received support from the State of Florida Department of Cultural Affairs, New England Foundation for the Arts, Palm Beach County Cultural Council, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music and the Virgil Thomson Foundation.
Tickets are available from Oxnard College Foundation’s Board of Directors, Oxnard College Student Business Office and at the Door — $40 per person, $25 per student.
Call Connie Owens at 805.986.5889 for more information.