Accompanying the McNay Art Museum’s Pop América, 1965-1975 exhibit, this program features North American and Latin American composers whose music is largely characterized by folk traditions and populist elements as opposed to traditional European forms. Leading to, during, and after World War II, composers struggled to find their own voice in breaking from tradition; some rejected the lineage of canonic composers and its road to modernism (John Cage), while others found a way to overlay dissonant European expressionism with nationalistic elements (Hector Villa-Lobos). Featuring music by Cage, Villa-Lobos, Ponce, Ginastera, Guastavino, Antheil, Pizzolla, and Johnson.