Available 10/26: "Destinations", A collection of Orchestral works from Latin American Composers

Destinations

The concert hall housing the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra in Olomouc, Czech Republic is a world away from the varying locales the five living Latin American composers featured here call home. Their journey to this small Eastern European city in a way symbolizes the convergence of influence and exodus that make the story of Destinations all the more real. Like Argentinean-born 20^th Century composer Astor Piazzolla, each of these North American-based composers had uprooted from Latin America and set out for the United States at various points in their lives. They came to America to study, teach, compose, and ultimately share their music influenced by the places that helped and continue to shape them.

“One could think of the Destinations project as belonging to a ‘Post-Latin American era,” says Ricardo Lorenz. “The sound is genuinely coming out of composers belonging to the Latin American Diaspora – composers born in yet uprooted from Latin America.”

This is a collection marked by musical diversity throughout; Alfonso Tenreiro’s Meditacion rich in Romantic harmonic passages; Astor Piazzolla’s Milonga en Re a tango-infused orchestral work; Sergio Cervetti’s Chacona para el Martirio de Atahualpa an energetic chaconne baroque-style dance flavored with minimalist aesthetics. With Destinations, a unified hope to change the game for an underserved segment of modern classical music brought together by a common story is ready for new ears.

Posted: October 24th, 2009  |  No Comments »