# Jordi Savall at Zellerbach Hall Auditorium, November 3, 2018

[Cal Performances](https://calperformances.org/performances/2018-19/early-music/jordi-savall-the-routes-of-slavery-1444-1888.php) presents _The Routes of Slavery (1444–1888)_ featuring [Jordi Savall](http://www.alia-vox.com/)  
[Zellerbach Hall Auditorium](https://calperformances.org/visit/venues/zh.php)  
[U.C. Berkeley, Bancroft Way at Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA 94305 USA](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=U.C.+Berkeley,+Bancroft+Way+at+Telegraph+Ave,+Berkeley,+CA+94305+USA&hl=en)  
8:00 PM, Saturday, November 3, 2018

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## Set One

[8:10 PM lights down, announcements]

01. [8:13 PM] Music: Percussion; Narration (0): Aristotle
02. [8:14 PM] Music: Kora; Narration (1): 1444. Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea
03. [8:16 PM] _Djonya_ (Introduction) – Improvisations by Mohamed Diaby; Lamentation: The African view of slavery
04. [8:19 PM] **La Negrina**: _San Sabeya gugurumbé_ – Mateo Flecha, the elder (1491–1553) >> _Los Negritos/Gurumbé_ – Jarocho son (traditional)
05. [8:23 PM] _Vida ao Jongo_ (Jongo da Serrinha) – African tradition (Brazil)/Lazir Sinval
06. [8:24 PM] Music: Guitar (Romanesca); Narration (2): 1505. On September 15, from Segovia, King Ferdinand the Catholic wrote a letter to Nicolas de Ovando
07. [8:26 PM] _Tambalagumbá_ (Negrilla for 6 v. and b.c.) – Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla (1590–1664), Mss. Puebla (1657)
08. [8:29 PM] _Manden Mandinkadenou_ (Griot song) – Musical version and improvisations by Mohamed Diaby and Ballaké Sissoko: The pleasures of youth are destined to be forgotten, but the great deeds of heroes of the past are remembered long after them, especially when they brought peace to their homeland.
09. [8:33 PM] Music: Malimba; Narration (3): 1620. The first African slaves arrive in the English colonies. António Vieira, Sermons, 1661
10. [8:38 PM] _Velo que bonito_ (San Antonio) – Traditional spiritual song (Pacific, Colombia)
11. [8:39 PM] Music: Percussion; Narration (4): 1657. Richard Ligon publishes _A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes_ at London, in which he describes the music of the slaves.
12. [8:40 PM] _Saí da casa_ (Ciranda) – Traditional/Escurinho (Brazil)
13. [8:44 PM] Music: Slow drums; Narration (5): 1661. The punishments of slaves in the “Slave Code of Barbados.”; Hans Sloane, _A Voyage to the Islands_, London, 1706, vol. 1, p. lvii.; Jean-Baptiste Labat, _Nouveau Voyage aux Îles de l’Amérique_, Paris 1722, p. 248
14. [8:46 PM] _Follow the Drinking Gourd_ – Slave song
15. [8:51 PM] _Antonya, Flaciquia, Gasipà_ (Negro a 5) – Fray Filipe da Madre de Deus (ca. 1630–1690)
16. [8:53 PM] Music: Harp; Narration (6): 1685. The “Black Code” promulgated by Louis XIV
17. [8:57 PM] _Another Man Done Gone_ – Slave song
18. [9:05 PM] Music: Malimba; Narration (7): 1748. Montesquieu, _On the Slavery of Negroes_, from _The Spirit of the Laws_, Paris 1748
19. [9:07 PM] _Simbo_ (Griot song) – Musical version and improvisations by Mohamed Diaby: The mythical hunter Mandé Mory, clear-sighted as the kingsfisher (Kulandjan), is compared to the great hunter Soundiata and other hunter heroes.  
[set ends 9:12 PM]

## Set Two

[9:41 PM lights down, band out]

01. [9:43 PM] _Awal_ (instrumental and vocal) – Improvisations (Mamani Keita, Mohamed Diaby, and Ballaké Sissoko)
02. [9:48 PM] Music: Guitar; Narration (8): 1772. Guillaume Raynal, _A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies_: “Wretched condition of the slaves in America”; Guillaume-Thomas Raynal, _Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes_, chap. X, Genéve, 1772
03. [9:50 PM] **Son de la Tirana**: _Mariquita, María_ – Traditional (Costa Chica de Guerrero, Mexico)
04. [9:53 PM] Music: Kora; Narration (9): 1781. Thomas Jefferson, _Notes of the State of Virginia_
05. [9:55 PM] **Tonada de El Chimo**: _Jaya llûnch, Jaya llôch_ (Indian ritual song in Mochica language, for two voices, bass, and tabor) – Anonymous, Codex Trujillo, No. 6 (E 180) Baltazar [Baltasar] Martínez Compañón. Peru, Bolivia, ca. 1780
06. [9:59 PM] Music: Harp; Narration (10): 1782. Abandoned by her master, the slave Belinda, aged 70 years, petitions the legislature of Massachusetts for a pension as reparations aer a lifetime of labor.
07. [10:00 PM] **Tonada El Congo**: _A la mar me llevan_ (for voices and bass, sung while dancing) – Anonymous, Codex Trujillo, No. 3 (E 178)
08. [10:03 PM] Music: Guitar; Narration (11): 1855. Abraham Lincoln wrote to Joshua Speed, a personal friend and slave owner in Kentucky.
09. [10:04 PM] _I’m packing up_ – Slave song
10. [10:06 PM] Music: Harp; Narration (12): 1865. The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.
11. [10:07 PM] _Amazing Grace_ (Spiritual) – John Newton (1779)/William Walker (1835)
12. [10:10 PM] Narration (13): 1963. “Why we can’t wait,” by Martin Luther King, Jr. (New York, 1963); Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Peace Prize (1964), New York; Assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968
18. [10:11 PM] _Touramakan_ (Griot song) – Musical version and improvisations by Mohamed Diaby; Touramakan, Soundiata’s half-brother, was a ferocious warrior who became a general of the Emperor’s troops and the ancestor of the Diabatés.
19. [10:13 PM] Narration (14): No place in the world can any longer put up with the slightest forgetting of a crime, the slightest shade cast over the matter. We ask that the parts of our history that have not been spoken be conjured up, so that—together, and liberated—we can enter into the Tout-Monde. And together, let us name the slave trade and the slavery perpetrated in the Americas and the Indian Ocean: Crime Against Humanity. — _Extract from a petition sent by Edouard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Wole Soyinka to the Secretary General of the United Nations in 1998_  
[set ends 10:15 PM]  
   
**Encore**
10. [10:17 PM] ? (maybe _La Folia_?)  
[show ends 10:22 PM; applause through 10:25 PM, then all off]


## Performers

### Hespèrion XXI

* Béatrice Delpierre: flute, shawm;
* Pierre Hamon: flutes;
* Daniel Lassalle: sackbut;
* Xavier Díaz-Latorre: classical guitar;
* Andrew Lawrence-King: Spanish Baroque harp;
* David Mayoral: percussion;
* Xavier Puertas: violone;
* [Jordi Savall](http://www.alia-vox.com/): treble viol, musical and program director;

### La Capella Reial De Catalunya

* Petter Udland Johansen: tenor vox;
* David Sagastume: countertenor vox;
* Arianna Savall: soprano vox;
* Víctor Sordo: tenor vox;
* Pieter Stas: baritone vox;

### Tembembe Ensamble Continuo

[Tembembe Ensamble Continuo](https://www.facebook.com/tembembe/)

* Enrique Barona: vihuela, leona, jarana, quijada de caballo, dance, vox;
* Ada Coronel: vihuela, wasá, dance, vox;
* Yannis François: bass-baritone vox;
* Maria Juliana Linhares: soprano vox;
* Ulises Martínez: violin, vihuela, leona, vox;
* Zé Luis Nascimento: percussion;
* Leopoldo Novoa: marimbol, marimba de chonta, tiple colombiano, vox;

### Additional performers

* Neema Bickersteth: vox;
* Aldo Billingslea: narrator;
* Mohammed Diaby: vox;
* Ballaké Sissoko: kora, vox;
* Mamani Keita: dancer, coro vox;
* Nana Kouyaté: dancer, coro vox;
* Tanti Kouyaté: dancer, coro vox;

## Notes

Like usual, Jordi Savall knocked me out with an amazing program. Tonight he synthesized a rich musical stew by combining several disparate elements (masters of traditional music from Mali, European early music specialists, South American folk music experts, and Americans). While the connections between the parts and performers might be awkward for a critic to follow, as an open-minded listener, I found it easy to lean on the common music thread of heartfelt expression. Despite the somewhat academic nature of the program listing, the actual performance was easy and natural. Bravo!

[Program Notes](http://calperformances.org/learn/program_notes/2018-19/pn_routes-of-slavery.pdf) or {{:2018:2018-11:pn_savall.pdf|program notes}}

Jeff Kaliss posted a nice promo piece about the show at [SFCV](https://www.sfcv.org/events-calendar/artist-spotlight/jordi-savall-and-ensembles-explore-the-routes-of-slavery-0).

Nicholas Jones posted a [review](https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/cal-performances/jordi-savall-leads-a-global-village-of-musicians-in-a-kaleidoscopic-tour-of) of the show at SFCV.

Joshua Kosman posted a [review](https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/in-berkeley-jordi-savall-traces-the-cultural-paths-of-the-slave-trade-in-desultory-fashion) of tonight's show in the SF Chronicle Datebook.

## Photos

Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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