The final MAJIC concert of the season offered up a great art and music pairing. The local Grand Rapids flute and guitar duo Folias, combined with percussionist/composer Scott Harding and flutist Tess Miller to form their new group called Folias Latin Dance Project. The music program featured all original arrangements and compositions of works from Argentina, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic.
The art work by Hugo Claudin was from a series of his called Mexicains sans frontiers that was inspired by a trip he took to an artist colony in Baja California. "The light is refracted in a special way" says Claudin about how his works that were inspired by this place near the Tropic of Cancer. Music such as Folias' original, Maufo Vega, a work about Big Bend National Park, also captures the way light is different further South and in the deserts of Texas.
