"The
aging musical score wasn't easy to read. It was a copy of a copy of a
Latin Mass by the 18th-century composer Domenico Zipoli that had crossed
the Atlantic and most of South America, only to be stuffed into a box
for three centuries in a derelict jungle church where humidity had taken
its toll.
"And then there were the termites.
"The insects had eaten large tracts of the Mass, including the 22nd and 23rd measures.
"But while much of the work of Zipoli has vanished in his native Europe, it has managed to survive in eastern Bolivia - along with his vast Baroque musical tradition, which hums through the tropical lowlands."
A recent article in the New York Times reported on the Baroque musical legacy left by Jesuit missionaries in Bolivia.
To access the complete New York Times report, please visit:
The New York Times: Jesuit Legacy in the Bolivian Jungle: A Love of Baroque Music (8 MAY 18)
"And then there were the termites.
"The insects had eaten large tracts of the Mass, including the 22nd and 23rd measures.
"But while much of the work of Zipoli has vanished in his native Europe, it has managed to survive in eastern Bolivia - along with his vast Baroque musical tradition, which hums through the tropical lowlands."
A recent article in the New York Times reported on the Baroque musical legacy left by Jesuit missionaries in Bolivia.
To access the complete New York Times report, please visit:
The New York Times: Jesuit Legacy in the Bolivian Jungle: A Love of Baroque Music (8 MAY 18)
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