Todo Cambia: Featuring Vijay Gupta & La Marisoul

Created through a years-long collaboration between visionary violinist and author Vijay Gupta, Street Symphony, Los Angeles-based Mexican folk musicians Son California, and Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and actress La Marisoul, this evening brings together selections from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and Mexico’s traditional son jarocho music—including pieces such as La Caña and La Carretera—in newly created orchestrations. Rather than presenting these two classical music traditions side by side, the program interweaves them, allowing them to illuminate each other in real time to celebrate both the natural world and our human experience within it.

This is a co-production between Patricia Reser Center for the Arts & Chamber Music Northwest.

“In Vivaldi’s work, the violin traces the physical realities of heat, cold, wind, and storm, alongside scenes of labor, celebration, and rest drawn from everyday life. In son jarocho, songs like La Caña carry histories of land, labor, and endurance, shaped through generations of communal music-making. Both traditions engage directly with the natural world and with the human experience within it.

By bringing these forms together, the program does not seek contrast but recognition. The repetition and variation of son jarocho, and the cyclical structures embedded in Vivaldi’s music, reveal a shared sense of time as something lived—through work, through environment, and through one another.

This performance invites audiences to hear these connections as they unfold, not as an abstract idea, but as a lived encounter with sound, place, and the forces that shape both.”

— Vijay Gupta

“[Vijay Gupta is a] visionary violinist…one of the most radical thinkers in the unradical world of American classical music.”

— The New Yorker

“The powerful voice of lead singer La Marisoul ties the varied threads together in a way that should satisfy longtime fans and bring more on board.”

— popMATTERS.com

Patricia Reser Center for the Arts
Thursday, 4/8 • 7:30 pm

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