Musician plays in unique festival
In May 2006, musician Jules Polacheck performed at the biennial Festival of International Renaissance and American Baroque Music, held in the seven Jesuit mission churches in eastern Bolivia. A professional cellist for 33 years, Jules joined musicians from Europe and the Americas.
Jesuit missionaries founded the missions among the Chiquitos peoples and taught them Christianity, arts, crafts, and music. After the Jesuits were expelled from the New World in 1767, the Chiquitos carried on much of what they learned, but their art and music knowledge was nearly lost.
In 1988, during the restoration of the Jesuit-built churches in the mission towns, archives of Baroque-style music were discovered. This discovery launched the music festival in 1996, which is gaining international attention.
Through a contact of LATCOM’s, Jules was invited to participate in the 2006 festival.
Above: Cellist Jules Polacheck will be
offering benefit concerts to support the
ministries of LATCOM.
Since 1973, Jules Polachek has performed with orchestras throughout the U.S. and Europe. For sixteen years, He has conducted and directed orchestras and conducted vocal and choral groups.
Jules regularly performs on stage at Disney World and in classic, jazz, and contemporary venues with Beautiful Music Orlando. Jules performs in concert with the Kerr/Polachek Duo (violin/cello), with Brio! (violin/cello/piano), and with the Electric Quartet Muse (flute/violin/cello/harp).
With these groups, Jules is planning to offer benefit concerts to support the work of LATCOM. Contact us for more details.•
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