Cancelled
Camerata del Sol issued the following statement regarding the cancellation of their appearance in Silver City:
We have always loved playing at the Silver City Fine Arts Center Theater.
While we were very excited about our upcoming concert on April 29th, we are heartbroken that we have had to make the difficult decision to cancel all concerts that would require our musicians to travel through the internal checkpoints. We are sorry, but we have to cancel our concert at the Silver City Fine Arts Center Theater on April 29, 2025.
We are proud of the fact that Camerata del Sol is a regional group that brings together musicians from Ciudad Juarez, El Paso, and Las Cruces. Every concert we have played has included musicians with different types of immigration status. We have had US citizens, legal permanent residents, and people with special visas play with the ensemble.
Unfortunately we are living in a time when all immigrants, regardless of their legal status in the United States, are being stripped of the right to due process. The right to review and the right to challenge evidence aren’t being respected, threatening due process rights and freedoms of everyone in the US, both citizens and noncitizens.
Today in the US legal immigrants are being deprived of liberty and property, as well as having their lives endangered, all without a fair and just process. We will not change our regional, collaborative structure. We will not form ensembles made up only of US citizens. We cannot ask our musicians to travel through internal checkpoints at this point in time as we watch even legal permanent residents being mistreated at airports and kidnapped off the street.
We apologize that this cancellation is happening at this late date. It was truly our hope that the courts and congress would be able to protect people in the US with legal status. Just this past week we have seen that even when judges have issued orders to protect Fulbright scholars and others, those orders have been ignored.
We no longer have confidence that there would be any protection of the basic rights of all of our musicians if they were to travel through an internal checkpoint.
We hope that you will be able to join us, and/or encourage your usual patrons to join us for one of the concerts that will take place in Las Cruces on April 5th or the concert in El Paso on April 6th.
We are deeply saddened that we have had to make this decision.
Best regards,
(Board members of Camerata del Sol)
Tuesday, April 29
7pm
Fine Arts Center Theater
Camerata del Sol is an innovative group of top-notch musicians from Las Cruces, El Paso and Ciudad Juárez that seeks to bring unique chamber music experiences to the region. Founded by NMSU professor and Latin Grammy award winning violinist Daniel Vega-Albela, Camerata was conceived to explore the string ensemble repertoire that full symphonies seldom perform due to the large nature of those orchestras. Camerata Del Sol is a conductorless ensemble that requires each of its members to be responsible for bringing every score we prepare to life as well as to become an integral part of the creative process.
This concert will feature an octet, with 4 violins, 2 violas, and 2 cellos.
This show is presented in cooperation with The Grant County Community Concert Association.
Program:George Gershwin LullabyJoseph Haydn String Quartet in G Major Hob. III:81, Op. 77 No.1IntermissionFelix Mendelssohn Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20
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