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CMP 1067
Sextet for tenor (G3-E4), alto saxophone, bassoon, contrabass, percussion and piano.
Grade 4-5. Approx. duration: five minutes.
Set includes performance score, piano/vocal score and four parts.
Francisco Pezoa was a militant libertarian and popular poet, who, around the beginning of the 20th century, took part in the effort to extend the anarchist movement into Chile’s mining region. This caused numerous conflicts, the most tragic of which took place in 1907: To put an end to a weeklong strike, the military forcibly dislodged from a Catholic school the thousands of striking workers who had gathered there. Using spoken declamations, Silva uses Pezoa’s poem, “Canto a la Huelga,” the first to immortalize the massacre, as the basis for a dramatic retelling of the fateful events of that day.
Performed by the Cayambis Sinfonietta, John L. Walker, director, on October 21, 2014 in Blacksburg, Virginia. Theodore Sipes, baritone; Elizabeth Lantz Crone, flute; Robert Deis, saxophone; Amy Gillick, bassoon; Annie Stevens, percussion; Yi-Wen Evans, string bass; Dolly Hsu, piano.
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