Todo Cambia: Featuring Vijay Gupta & La Marisoul

Created through a years-long collaboration between visionary violinist and author Vijay Gupta, Street Symphony, Los Angeles-based Mexican folk musicians Son California, and Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and actress La Marisoul, this evening brings together selections from Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” and Mexico’s traditional son jarocho music—including pieces such as “La Caña” and “La Carretera”—in newly created orchestrations. Rather than presenting these two classical music traditions side by side, the program interweaves them, allowing them to illuminate each other in real time to celebrate both the natural world and our human experience within it.

In Vijay’s words:

“In Vivaldi’s work, the violin traces the physical realities of heat, cold, wind, and storm, alongside scenes of labor, celebration, and rest drawn from everyday life. In son jarocho, songs like “La Caña” carry histories of land, labor, and endurance, shaped through generations of communal music-making. Both traditions engage directly with the natural world and with the human experience within it.

By bringing these forms together, the program does not seek contrast but recognition. The repetition and variation of son jarocho, and the cyclical structures embedded in Vivaldi’s music, reveal a shared sense of time as something lived—through work, through environment, and through one another.

This performance invites audiences to hear these connections as they unfold, not as an abstract idea, but as a lived encounter with sound, place, and the forces that shape both.”

Vijay Gupta, violinist, author, and founder of Street Symphony, brings a practice rooted in listening as a form of leadership: an understanding, developed through years of community performance, that music reveals how people adapt, endure, and find meaning together. Hailed as “a visionary violinist and a radical thinker in the classical music world” (The New Yorker), Gupta is a 2018 MacArthur ‘Genius’ grant recipient and an internationally-recognized leader in music and social advocacy. Gupta reflects on this journey in his memoir “Restrung”, which traces his path from major orchestras to the shelters and community rooms of Skid Row.

La Marisoul (born Eva Marisol Hernandez) is a singer, songwriter, and actress, with a unique voice shaped by Olvera Street boleros, rancheras, and the living tradition of music as a communal act. As the lead singer for La Santa Cecelia, La Marisoul has performed at Walt Disney Hall and the Hollywood Bowl, and holds the 2014 Grammy for Best Latin Rock Album.

PROGRAM:

La Marisoul Hernandez, lead vocals

Vijay Gupta, violin

Federico Zúñiga, bass

Laura Cambron, tarima

Victor Murillo, requinto vocals and jarana

Jorge Herrera, requinto vocals and jarana

Sponsored by Ronni Lacroute