February 18, 2016
This month we edited a substantial work for wind quintet by Domenico Brescia. Composed in 1922, it reveals the lingering influence of his having spent nearly twenty years in Latin America. Like this quintet, Romanza for flute and piano and Symphonic Fragment for three trombones and tuba also have a Latin American connection, but it’s not a stylistic one. Rather, the first was composed in 1892 while Brescia was on his way to Chile to conduct the choirs of the Lalloni-Padovani Opera Company. The second was composed eight years later in Chile not long after Brescia had been named sub director of that country’s national conservatory. In addition to these three works, we finished a very exciting piece, Danzas Ocultas, for clarinet and piano, by Venezuelan composer Andrés Levell and a work inspired by the spinning sounds of the toy-like Zaranda. This work, for alto flute and piano, is by Luis Pérez Valero.
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