For this project, special musical arrangements were made for the Santa Cecilia Ensemble, because most of the best music of this era is written for solo piano. The arrangements were commissioned by Arco & Lira to the composers Dmitry Dudin and Horacio Uribe.

The program consists of works written by leading Mexican composers, such as Macedonio Alcalá, Juventino Rosas, Melesio Morales, and others.

 

The visual material gathered for this project consists of over 250 original photographs loaned of the Film Library of the INAH (National Anthropology and History Institute) and the National Museum of Photography in Mexico City. It also presents several of the earliest films about social life in Mexico, loaned from the of the Film Library at UNAM. Arco & Lira has permission of these institutions to use this material as part of the show.

 

The photographs show rural landscapes and urban scenes in major cities across the country. They offer a broad overview of work and social live in Mexico after the Independence.