The author has tried to solve the problem by means of musical instruments, with moderate success.” One American who was deeply impressed by Revueltas was Aaron Copland, who began visiting Mexico in 1933, and it’s easy to hear how those influences permeated Copland’s El Salón México from 1935 and all his classic works of homespun Americana that followed.Īaron Grad ©2022 Toggle open/close Paquito D'Rivera Aires Tropicales ( Tropical Air) for Woodwind QuintetĪstor Piazzolla merged Argentinean popular music and 20th-century classical styles to spearhead the revolutionary movement known as “new tango.” Born in Argentina, Piazzolla spent much of his childhood in New York. He described the cheeky score as “an algebraic equation with no possible solution, unless you have deep knowledge of mathematics. Just as he began to establish an international foothold, he died at the age of 40 from pneumonia exacerbated by his alcoholism.įor one of his gigs providing music for radio broadcasts, Revueltas created 8 x radio for an eight-piece ensemble of clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, percussion and four strings. His politics aligned him with the anti-Fascist Republicans in Spain, where he toured in 1937.
He studied in Mexico and the United States, and he further honed his sense of orchestration during his tenure as the Assistant Conductor of the Mexican Symphony Orchestra from 1929 to 1935. The Mexican composer and violinist Silvestre Revueltas was a fascinating musician whose contributions have come to be more and more appreciated in recent decades.
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