Describe some of the Andean ensembles who have carried on the traditions of Nueva Canción and of waynos and sanjuanes in U.S. universities

What will be an ideal response?

• Toqui Amaru—Nueva Canción group of The University of Texas (Austin)
• Voces and Taki Ñan—intermediate and advanced-level Andean ensemble respectively, from the University of California at Santa Cruz Taki Ñan focuses on traditional Andean musics in Spanish, Quichua/Quechua, and Nueva Canción musics, sometimes presenting music from a single repertory, (for example, Colombian musics) and sometimes presenting a varied repertory of traditional and Nueva Canción musics.
• Aconcagua—a musical ensemble at Florida State University that performs a variety of Andean musics
• Viento—"focuses on traditional South-Andean musics for zampoña (bamboo panpipe) and tarqa" (a tarqa is a wooden duct flute similar to a recorder); this ensemble frequently performs in Berkeley, California
• "Los Mapaches"—"an ensemble of some thirty-five to fifty schoolchildren" from a school in Berkeley, California, who perform "Andean musics on zampoñas and other instruments--locally, in concert."
[See Worlds of Music for meaning and derivation of names of groups.]

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