The Cuban ensemble, an offshoot of the popular Buena Vista Social Club, delighted the audience with instrumentals and originals.
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is to understand the value of such an exercise: These men and women make music which might otherwise drift to the wayside, lifting up a people, a genre and its multitude of virtues so that a roomful of people can sway and sing and clap their hands in blissful appreciation., an audience taking in what, from all available evidence, was the first time any musicians associated with the culture-shifting Buena Vista Social Club project had performed in Dallas.
For roughly 100 minutes, the BVSO, standing on a stage bearing nothing more than instruments and microphones, deployed a mix of instrumentals, standards and originals — all in Spanish; trace amounts of English were heard from the stage Thursday — to steadily pry audience members loose of their plush seats.
Whether a BVSC original such as “El Cuarto de Tula,” a brief instrumental rendition of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” Chapman’s luminous reading of “Besame Mucho,” or the rousing take on Celia Cruz’s “Azucar, Azucar,” the BVSO rarely let the night grow too contemplative.
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