Located in the UK
Located in the USA
Located in Europe
- Robert Xavier Rodríguez
Adoración Ambulante — A Mexican Folk Celebration (1994)
- G Schirmer Inc (World)
- 2(pic)222/4431/timp.4perc.hp/str/ mariachi band; percussion ensemble; church bells; conch shells; and singing audience
- SATB chorus; Children's chorus
- Tenor, Bass
- 1 hr
- Aztec and Mayan chronicles and the Bible
- Aztec, Mayan, Spanish
Programme Note
Adoración Ambulante was created for a multimedia performance combining diverse ensembles in locations throughout Tepoztlán's Cathedral Square. Church bells sound a call to worship. A fanfare of conch shells in the four corners of the courtyard is answered by trumpets in the church tower. The central portion of the work is Con Flor y Canto, a twenty-minute narrative cantata with Spanish texts from ancient Aztec and Mayan chronicles and the Bible. The cantata is framed by a choral introit and benediction in both Latin and Nauhuatl, plus dances and processionals led by Mariachis.