Revolutionary echoes were inescapable last weekend when the Santa Barbara Master Chorale presented the stirring “Canto General,” with music by Mikis Theodorakis and words by Pablo Neruda. The chorale, ...

It’s a miracle that Pablo Neruda’s “Canto General” was published at all. In 1949, the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet and leftist political luminary narrowly escaped arrest for his political leanings ...

In "Canto General Siglo XXI," Pablo Neruda’s poetry tells a story. The story is a sprawling one, examining the conquest of much of South America by Spain and the consequences of colonialism. For the ...

“OF all fires, love is the only inexhaustible one,” wrote the great poet of Chile Pablo Neruda, and human love expressed in music, as in this burning album Rebel Flames by the Italian band Canto ...

For Maria Cordova, the chance to bring “Canto General Siglo XXI” home to Charleston was irresistible. “It’s very close to my heart,” Cordova said of the piece, a chamber-music setting of Pablo ...