“For me it was the beginning of friendship and associations that would continue for many years. It made me feel concern for the provincialism typical of the music scene in New York, where the tendency to lean back on that small circle of composers encouraging each other seemed to me lessening rather than enlarging of one’s capacities.

I realized that such an experience enlarges one’s field of vision. From now on, whatever other result the world crisis may bring, it is safe bet that musical relations with our Southern neighbors will be different”

Aaron Copland,
upon returning from Latin America, 1941

 

 

Ensamble America, founded by Latin American musicians, promotes and performs the classical  music treasures of the Americas.

"Ensamble America ... shares many qualities with the best chamber orchestras playing today; brilliances in its sound, clear projection an accuracy”

Willa J. Conrad, Star-Ledger, October 22, 2002