Argentine pianist Rosa Antonelli’s return to Carnegie Hall is a win-win.
Her concert on Oct. 22 will benefit Hispanic students while promoting little-known classical music by Latin American composers.
“Only (by) giving do we survive,” says Antonelli, who returns to Carnegie Hall after a soldout show in 2011.
The concert, which will benefit education programs and scholarship funds for the League of United Latin American Citizens Council (LULAC), includes two New York premieres: Spanish composer Isaac Albeniz’s “Champagne Waltz” and Louis Gianneo’s “Tres Danzas Argentinas.”
Antonelli will also include well-known tangos, such as “Adios Nonino” and “Libertango” by Astor Piazzolla, and pieces by Alberto Ginastera.
But the pianist says that “one of my goals is to perform pieces by Latin American classical composers whose work is not well known.”
