La Pasión Según San Marcos:
A Creative Learning Project
This project begins with students from around New York City
exploring some of the ritual elements of Osvaldo Golijov’s La Pasión según San Marcos, a
stunning oratorio that tells the story of the Passion through the cultural and
musical history of the Latin American people, including Batá drumming from Cuba
and Capoeira dance from Brazil. High
school singers and their teachers will rehearse the music from La Pasión beginning in
the Spring of 2012 and meet throughout the calendar year with famed Venezuelan
conductor Maria Guinand, to whom the piece is dedicated.
The project
culminates March 10, 2013, with a Carnegie Hall performance of La Pasión conducted by
Robert Spano, featuring approximately 125 New York City high school singers,
members of the Schola Cantorum de Venezuela Choir, professional soloists and
the Orquesta la Pasión.