<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035901971157124680</id><updated>2011-10-20T02:57:17.122-07:00</updated><category term='Wounded Angel'/><category term='Lincoln Center'/><category term='Danzas místicas'/><category term='Orquesta de Cadaqués'/><category term='Mystical Dances'/><category term='Trío Apolo'/><category term='Stefan Östersjö'/><category term='BBC Symphony Orchestra'/><category term='Liverpool Cathedral Orchestra'/><category term='Vaganza'/><category term='Anemone'/><category term='claro de luna'/><category term='Danza de la loma'/><category term='Alexander Shelley'/><category term='A to Z'/><category term='Northern Sinfonia'/><category term='MomentaQuartet'/><category term='Huddersfield Festival'/><category term='James Wishart'/><category term='Hugo Simberg'/><category term='New Juilliard Ensemble'/><category term='Trío'/><category term='City University'/><category term='Thomas Zehetmair'/><category term='cambios de forma'/><category term='Peregrine'/><category term='&apos;Montes&apos;'/><category term='Terje Thiwång'/><category term='Jaime Martín'/><category term='Orquesta de la Catedral de Liverpool'/><category term='Stedelijk Museum'/><category term='Ulster Orchestra'/><category term='Rock Hall Auditorium'/><category term='Summergarden'/><category term='Ilan Volkov'/><category term='pruebas de fuego'/><category term='Cuckson/Fisher/Gross'/><category term='String Quartet No. 1'/><category term='Fuego'/><category term='Joel Sachs'/><title type='text'>Agustín Fernández's programme notes</title><subtitle type='html'>For the use of concert promoters and students. © Agustín Fernández</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fernandeznotes.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8035901971157124680/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fernandeznotes.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Agustín Fernández</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17818640119574963497</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wpHxSwQjQX0/TA43Gtent6I/AAAAAAAAAMU/GVX4cRNeZ5g/S220/Hinojosa+2.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>10</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035901971157124680.post-2397362681179021965</id><published>2010-08-19T10:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-19T10:27:09.772-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thomas Zehetmair'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Northern Sinfonia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Huddersfield Festival'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Danzas místicas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pruebas de fuego'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cambios de forma'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='claro de luna'/><title type='text'>Danzas místicas</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Agustín Fernández&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Danzas místicas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;(2006)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;i. pruebas de fuego&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;ii. claro de luna&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;iii. cambios de forma&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;En una frase muy citada de Octavio Paz, “el poeta no tiene biografía; su obra es su biografía”, se encuentra también la clave del funcionamiento de muchos compositores. Es difícil no experimentar el trabajo creativo como una especie de alquimia que convierte las experiencias de la vida real en música. Así lo experimento yo, y esta obra es un ejemplo claro.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;El primer movimiento, titulado “pruebas de fuego” rescata ideas de mi obra &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Fuego &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;(1987), llevándolas en una dirección muy distinta. El fuego de 1987 era opresivo y político, mientras que el fuego de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Danzas místicas &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;es un fuego que envuelve, prueba el temple, destruye lo débil y consagra lo fuerte, transforma y da energía.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;El segundo movimiento, “claro de luna”, refleja musicalmente la luz ardiente y al mismo tiempo helada que arroja la luna sobre la noche, produciendo una quieta efervescencia de voces y presencias que casi siempre callan, pero cobran vida en luna llena.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;“cambios de forma” se basa en transformaciones del material anterior. Con intención sinóptica, las ideas que primero fueron violentas y luego nocturnas, ahora se resumen, se comprimen y se reciclan con un carácter de celebración de la energía obtenida.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;La obra fue encargada por Northern Sinfonia y estrenada por esa orquesta, bajo la dirección de Thomas Zehetmair, en el Festival de Huddersfield de 2006.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333233; font: 12.0px Georgia; line-height: 20.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;© Agustín Fernández 2010&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8035901971157124680-2397362681179021965?l=fernandeznotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fernandeznotes.blogspot.com/feeds/2397362681179021965/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8035901971157124680&amp;postID=2397362681179021965' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8035901971157124680/posts/default/2397362681179021965'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8035901971157124680/posts/default/2397362681179021965'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fernandeznotes.blogspot.com/2010/08/danzas-misticas.html' title='Danzas místicas'/><author><name>Agustín Fernández</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17818640119574963497</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wpHxSwQjQX0/TA43Gtent6I/AAAAAAAAAMU/GVX4cRNeZ5g/S220/Hinojosa+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035901971157124680.post-6986030665421253004</id><published>2010-02-22T21:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-08-19T10:27:50.090-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rock Hall Auditorium'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='&apos;Montes&apos;'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MomentaQuartet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='String Quartet No. 1'/><title type='text'>String Quartet No. 1, Montes'</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Agustín Fernández&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;String Quartet No 1, ‘Montes’&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 54.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;i.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;City of Silence&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 54.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;ii.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Gate of the Moon&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 54.0pt; text-indent: -36.0pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;iii.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Music and Land&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;This work is a musical tribute to the Bolivian painter Fernando Montes, who died in January 2007 in London. The quartet is in three movements, each addressing one of Montes’s paintings. In some cases the connection is structural, extracting ideas for the organisation of musical material from the layout of the images. In all three cases, the music is an exploration of expressive resonances perceived from the paintings, as well as a reflection on the shared aspects in the painter’s and the composer’s backgrounds. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Thus, ‘City of Silence’ evokes the hieratic starkness of the eponymous painting. ‘Gate of the Moon’ explores an idea suggested by the painting – where a silver light radiates from the centre outward – and builds on material from ‘mooncast’ from my &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Mystical Dances. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;‘Music and Land’ takes Montes’s idea of two drummers and a piper to generate music that has some of the character of Andean pipes’ playing with percussive accompaniment.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;The piece was first performed by the Momenta Quartet on 28 November 2007 at Rock Hall Auditorium, Philadelphia.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;© Agustín Fernández&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8035901971157124680-6986030665421253004?l=fernandeznotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fernandeznotes.blogspot.com/feeds/6986030665421253004/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8035901971157124680&amp;postID=6986030665421253004' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8035901971157124680/posts/default/6986030665421253004'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8035901971157124680/posts/default/6986030665421253004'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fernandeznotes.blogspot.com/2010/02/string-quartet-no-1-montes.html' title='String Quartet No. 1, Montes&apos;'/><author><name>Agustín Fernández</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17818640119574963497</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wpHxSwQjQX0/TA43Gtent6I/AAAAAAAAAMU/GVX4cRNeZ5g/S220/Hinojosa+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035901971157124680.post-7339803741170099951</id><published>2010-02-21T10:22:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-21T10:22:47.627-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='A to Z'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terje Thiwång'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Stefan Östersjö'/><title type='text'>A to Z</title><content type='html'>&lt;!--StartFragment--&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;A to Z (2001-2002)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;This is an ongoing cycle of small études exploring the technical and expressive possibilities of various combinations of flutes and guitars, played by two performers. The work is being written specially for Stefan Östersjö and Terje Thiwång. When they gave the first performance in Malmö in April 2001 there were four études. Today the series consists of nine, with transitional passages added to facilitates instrument changes. The first performance of this fuller version took place in Stockholm in 2005.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8035901971157124680-7339803741170099951?l=fernandeznotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fernandeznotes.blogspot.com/feeds/7339803741170099951/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8035901971157124680&amp;postID=7339803741170099951' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8035901971157124680/posts/default/7339803741170099951'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8035901971157124680/posts/default/7339803741170099951'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fernandeznotes.blogspot.com/2010/02/to-z.html' title='A to Z'/><author><name>Agustín Fernández</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17818640119574963497</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wpHxSwQjQX0/TA43Gtent6I/AAAAAAAAAMU/GVX4cRNeZ5g/S220/Hinojosa+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035901971157124680.post-3213876556190941714</id><published>2010-02-21T10:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-21T10:26:15.183-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Stefan Östersjö'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Stedelijk Museum'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wounded Angel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='City University'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hugo Simberg'/><title type='text'>Wounded Angel</title><content type='html'>&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Wounded Angel &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;(1989)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;The title is borrowed from that of a painting by the Finnish painter Hugo Simberg (1873-1917), in which two peasant children are depicted carrying an injured angel on a stretcher.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;The music was conceived as a prelude to the picture, in which I attempt to explore the inexplicable: what happened just before the scene Simberg depicts? The end of the piece should be the start of the painting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;My &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Wounded Angel &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;was realised at the studios of City University, London, and first performed – in an earlier version – by myself at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, in 1989.&amp;nbsp;It is available in two recordings: by myself on NMC (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Mixed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;), and by Stefan Östersjö on dB (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Playtime&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8035901971157124680-3213876556190941714?l=fernandeznotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fernandeznotes.blogspot.com/feeds/3213876556190941714/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8035901971157124680&amp;postID=3213876556190941714' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8035901971157124680/posts/default/3213876556190941714'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8035901971157124680/posts/default/3213876556190941714'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fernandeznotes.blogspot.com/2010/02/wounded-angel.html' title='Wounded Angel'/><author><name>Agustín Fernández</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17818640119574963497</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wpHxSwQjQX0/TA43Gtent6I/AAAAAAAAAMU/GVX4cRNeZ5g/S220/Hinojosa+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035901971157124680.post-3859010969650883971</id><published>2010-02-14T13:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-14T13:55:25.779-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lincoln Center'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joel Sachs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Juilliard Ensemble'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ilan Volkov'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Peregrine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vaganza'/><title type='text'>Peregrine</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Programme note 1&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Agustín Fernández: Peregrine&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The title refers to a number of different things: to a falcon, to something outlandish, to a literal translation of the Spanish for ‘pilgrim’ (peregrino), and hence to a poem by the Bolivian poet Ricardo Jaimes Freire: &lt;i&gt;Peregrina paloma imaginaria &lt;/i&gt;(literally ‘peregrine imaginary dove’, but the main thing here is the rhythm formed by the words in Spanish). The lone, high-flying predator, often a condor or an eagle, is a recurrent theme in Bolivian folklore. So is the dove as a symbol of gentleness and love. What happens when the two meet? This musical exploration tests the extent to which lightness of texture can survive an accumulation of rhythmic impetus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peregrine was commissioned by Joel Sachs for the New Juilliard Ensemble, who gave the first performance at Lincoln Center in December 1996. The Tyneside ensemble Vaganza performed it in 1997 conducted by Ilan Volkov. The current version is an extensive revision prepared for a repeat performance at Lincoln Center in November 2005.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;© Agustín Fernández&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Programme note 2&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Agustín Fernández: Peregrine&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are different possible meanings to the above title; any of them is appropriate to the piece. You can picture a predatory bird soaring through the skies and searching for prey. You can visualise the ruthless hunter swooping down on an innocent lamb. In the lyrics of some folksongs I heard in childhood, the high-flying bird is a spy, commissioned to come back and tell you what the person you desire gets up to when you cannot see them. Or you can think of a pilgrimage from place to place, or from rock to mountain. While admitting of these associations, this piece of music deals specifically with flight, the kinetic phenomenon. The prowess of defying gravity to take off and ascend, the gathering of momentum in the air, the calm confidence of gliding with motionless wings, and above all the exhilarating daredevilry of seeing how low it is possible to go without coming crashing down. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Peregrine&lt;/i&gt; was commissioned by Joel Sachs for the New Juilliard Ensemble, who gave the first performance at Lincoln Center in December 1996. The Tyneside ensemble Vaganza performed it in 1997 conducted by Ilan Volkov. The current version is an extensive revision prepared for a repeat performance at Lincoln Center in November 2005.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;© Agustín Fernández&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8035901971157124680-3859010969650883971?l=fernandeznotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fernandeznotes.blogspot.com/feeds/3859010969650883971/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8035901971157124680&amp;postID=3859010969650883971' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8035901971157124680/posts/default/3859010969650883971'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8035901971157124680/posts/default/3859010969650883971'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fernandeznotes.blogspot.com/2010/02/peregrine.html' title='Peregrine'/><author><name>Agustín Fernández</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17818640119574963497</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wpHxSwQjQX0/TA43Gtent6I/AAAAAAAAAMU/GVX4cRNeZ5g/S220/Hinojosa+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035901971157124680.post-4162198939756341075</id><published>2009-03-28T07:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-28T07:07:15.280-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Orquesta de Cadaqués'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jaime Martín'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Danza de la loma'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BBC Symphony Orchestra'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anemone'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ulster Orchestra'/><title type='text'>Danza de la loma</title><content type='html'>1986&lt;div&gt;Duración: 11 minutos&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Compuse esta pieza a pedido de la orquesta de Guildhall School of Music and Drama de Londres en 1986, cuando yo iniciaba un doctorado en la universidad City de la misma ciudad. Después de su estreno, bajo el título inicial de &lt;i&gt;Just a Dance (or Two)&lt;/i&gt; la hube de revisar y modificar radicalmente y en su nueva versión, con nuevo título, la han ejecutado el grupo Anemone de York, la Orquesta Sinfónica de la BBC, la Orquesta de Ulster y la Orquesta de Cadaqués. Aunque en este último caso el concierto era del Ensemble de Vientos de dicha orquesta, para mí el concepto de la obra es esencialmente orquestal, de ahí el subtítulo “para orquesta sin cuerdas”.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;El objetivo principal era el de crear música que expresara con colores vívidos el ambiente semi-rural en el que me crié, en Cochabamba, el valle central de Bolivia. Hoy en día Cochabamba es una urbe de carácter eminentemente citadino; cuando yo crecía en ella en los años sesenta y comienzos de los setenta su metabolismo alimentado por el campo era evidente en todos los aspectos, dándole un sabor rural. Yo quería que la música tuviera algo de la cualidad inmediata, tangible y física que tuvo para mí ese entorno, y que de la música se desprendieran los olores, colores y sudores de la tierra, como lo han conseguido pocos hasta ahora, como Stravinsky en &lt;i&gt;La consagración de la primavera&lt;/i&gt;. Por supuesto que mi pieza está construida en menor escala – una estructura de once minutos y no un ballet completo – por eso me pareció importante llamarla &lt;i&gt;Danza de la loma&lt;/i&gt;; “montaña” habría sido excesivo para esta modesta duración. Además, el término “loma” se presta mejor para describir un ascenso lento y un descenso rápido, que es la estructura que articula &lt;i&gt;Danza de la loma&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;La modalidad es la de una doble danza, en la que la orquesta se separa en dos mitades, cada una de las cuales ejecuta su propia danza y se atiene a ella a todo trance, avanzando gradualmente hacia su clímax. En la versión original la simultaneidad de las dos danzas era constante y el clímax era simultáneo, mientras que en &lt;i&gt;Danza de la loma&lt;/i&gt; las danzas muchas veces alternan para poder registrarse en la percepción del oyente, y a medida que se acercan a su clímax requieren de toda la orquesta para conseguir la intensidad necesaria, forzando así una alternación por razones de orquestación.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8035901971157124680-4162198939756341075?l=fernandeznotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fernandeznotes.blogspot.com/feeds/4162198939756341075/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8035901971157124680&amp;postID=4162198939756341075' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8035901971157124680/posts/default/4162198939756341075'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8035901971157124680/posts/default/4162198939756341075'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fernandeznotes.blogspot.com/2009/03/danza-de-la-loma.html' title='Danza de la loma'/><author><name>Agustín Fernández</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17818640119574963497</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wpHxSwQjQX0/TA43Gtent6I/AAAAAAAAAMU/GVX4cRNeZ5g/S220/Hinojosa+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035901971157124680.post-5540807534508182345</id><published>2007-07-07T05:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-07T05:22:19.727-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trío Apolo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trío'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Northern Sinfonia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Summergarden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cuckson/Fisher/Gross'/><title type='text'>Trío (en castellano)</title><content type='html'>Agustín Fernández &lt;br /&gt;Trío &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i. Preludio con vaticinios&lt;br /&gt;ii. Nana con despedida&lt;br /&gt;iii. Final con campanas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta obra ha sido compuesta especialmente para el Trío Apolo,  a quienes está dedicada y quienes la han encargado con el apoyo de la Fundación Arnoldo Schwimmer.  Fue completada en febrero de 2003 y estrenada en septiembre del mismo año en el Teatro Achá. Posteriormente fue ejecutada varias veces por el mismo Trío Apolo en Bolivia, por el Trío Cuckson/Gross/Fisher en el festival Summergarden de Nueva York en julio de 2006 y por miembros de Northern Sinfonia en marzo de 2007.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El primer movimiento  presenta una idea breve y recurrente que en cada aparición provoca  una secuela distinta, a la manera de una profecía que se cumple por el hecho de haber sido proferida.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En los otros dos movimientos empiezan a surgir, como sobrevivientes de historias pasadas, ideas de obras anteriores.  Esto se debe a las condiciones en las que fue compuesto el Trío. Por ejemplo, reflexionar sobre una partida en “Nana con despedida” me hizo recordar un momento equivalente de mi colección de piezas para charango y flauta &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;A to Z&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, escrita un año atrás. Del mismo modo, cuando yo trabajaba en el tercer movimiento de este Trío al mismo tiempo se preparaba la guerra contra Irak, tema que invadía las conversaciones y preocupaciones de muchos, y este compositor no era la excepción. Recordé haber tratado el tema de preparativos bélicos en mi ópera &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;La rueda&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, y quise volver a elaborar material de una escena en la que el héroe bufonesco se jacta de sus recién aprendidas tácticas de guerra, que él ya considera invencibles. Cerca del final, el cello evoca una frase de otra obra mía, &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Acercándose a Melmoth&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, en la que el barítono arremete contra una humanidad que permite que haya niños hambrientos: Hombres, hombres, ¿qué es lo que persiguen? ¿qué es lo que les apasiona?  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Las exigencias texturales del tercer movimiento – que obligan a los instrumentistas a producir sonoridades inusualmente densas – me han sugerido la idea de arreglar el Trío para orquesta de cuerdas y piano. La obra resultante se titula Una música escondida y fue estrenada en Inglaterra en mayo de 2004 por Northern Sinfonia.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8035901971157124680-5540807534508182345?l=fernandeznotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fernandeznotes.blogspot.com/feeds/5540807534508182345/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8035901971157124680&amp;postID=5540807534508182345' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8035901971157124680/posts/default/5540807534508182345'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8035901971157124680/posts/default/5540807534508182345'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fernandeznotes.blogspot.com/2007/07/tro-en-castellano.html' title='Trío (en castellano)'/><author><name>Agustín Fernández</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17818640119574963497</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wpHxSwQjQX0/TA43Gtent6I/AAAAAAAAAMU/GVX4cRNeZ5g/S220/Hinojosa+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035901971157124680.post-2683128341579713823</id><published>2007-04-12T09:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-01T05:07:19.637-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mystical Dances'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fuego'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Northern Sinfonia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alexander Shelley'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Huddersfield Festival'/><title type='text'>Mystical Dances (in English)</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Agustín Fernández&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mystical Dances&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(2006)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i. ordelfire&lt;br /&gt;ii. mooncast&lt;br /&gt;iii. shapeshift&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a much-quoted phrase, Octavio Paz wrote: “the poet has no biography - his work is his biography”. I think of that when I find myself attempting an alchemy where personal experiences become music, and new pieces pick up the thread of previous ones like new chapters of the same novel. &lt;i&gt;Mystical Dances&lt;/i&gt; charts some of the processes unleashed by encounters with mysterious forces, voices and presences experienced in rural Northumberland, so radically different and yet in some respects so eerily similar to my native Bolivia. On a more personal level, it has to do with a once-in-a-lifetime change of direction in pursuit of a truer self and a truer other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The work is in three movements, following the age-old lively/slow/lively pattern. ‘ordelfire’ develops ideas associated with burning, first explored in my work &lt;i&gt;Fuego&lt;/i&gt; of 1987, but taking them in a totally different direction. If the intention then was to explore fire as destructive violence, now the fire is a force that engulfs, cleanses, transforms and gives energy. The second movement, titled ‘mooncast’, tries to depict the burning light cast by the full moon over the hills of Northumberland. ‘shapeshift’ was titled before it existed, and once written its title proved its fate, as the music had to be re-written since the first performance. It deals with mutations of the preceding material, which in turn adopt ever new guises.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mystical Dances&lt;/i&gt; was commissioned by Northern Sinfonia, who gave the first performance at the Huddersfield Festival in 2006. It was performed again by the same orchestra conducted by Alexander Shelley in August 2007 at The Sage Gateshead .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;© Agustín Fernández 2007&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8035901971157124680-2683128341579713823?l=fernandeznotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fernandeznotes.blogspot.com/feeds/2683128341579713823/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8035901971157124680&amp;postID=2683128341579713823' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8035901971157124680/posts/default/2683128341579713823'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8035901971157124680/posts/default/2683128341579713823'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fernandeznotes.blogspot.com/2007/04/mystical-dances-in-english.html' title='Mystical Dances (in English)'/><author><name>Agustín Fernández</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17818640119574963497</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wpHxSwQjQX0/TA43Gtent6I/AAAAAAAAAMU/GVX4cRNeZ5g/S220/Hinojosa+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035901971157124680.post-7592337366375857504</id><published>2007-04-12T06:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-12T09:35:49.748-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fuego'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Liverpool Cathedral Orchestra'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='James Wishart'/><title type='text'>Fuego (in English)</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Agustín Fernández&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Fuego&lt;/i&gt; &lt;br /&gt;(1987)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The title of this work refers to an utterly unromantic kind of fire: the fire that, on 2 July 1986, burned two Chilean students outside Santiago. It was a man-made fire, resulting from soldiers pouring kerosene and deliberately setting the youngsters alight. This was, it seems, some kind of exemplary punishment Pinochet’s people had wanted to impart; for this purpose, they picked their two victims apparently at random from a dispersing crowd during a national strike.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fire had been a pervasive element of Chilean life during this period. The presidential palace had burned as Pinochet came to power, civil rights campaigner Sebastián Acevedo had burned himself alive in protest at Pinochet’s atrocities, and candles had been lit in the streets at night to commemorate the dead in the mid-1980s.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1987 this piece was a protest too, as well as a threnody for the dead and a eulogy for the courage of those Chileans who, in the face of real danger, revolted on. But also, I confess, &lt;i&gt;Fuego&lt;/i&gt; is an expression of fascination, of hipnosis at this strange recurrence of fire. The changing guises of fire in different situations suggested the structure: a theme and seven variations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Fuego&lt;/i&gt; was commissioned by the Orchestra of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool, and it was first performed by them under James Wishart, at the Cathedral, on 23 May 1987. It is dedicated to the two victims, Rodrigo Rojas de Negri and Carmen Gloria Quintana.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;© Agustín Fernández&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8035901971157124680-7592337366375857504?l=fernandeznotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fernandeznotes.blogspot.com/feeds/7592337366375857504/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8035901971157124680&amp;postID=7592337366375857504' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8035901971157124680/posts/default/7592337366375857504'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8035901971157124680/posts/default/7592337366375857504'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fernandeznotes.blogspot.com/2007/04/fuego-in-english.html' title='Fuego (in English)'/><author><name>Agustín Fernández</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17818640119574963497</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wpHxSwQjQX0/TA43Gtent6I/AAAAAAAAAMU/GVX4cRNeZ5g/S220/Hinojosa+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035901971157124680.post-3126326635018822419</id><published>2007-04-12T05:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-12T09:36:21.061-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fuego'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='James Wishart'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Orquesta de la Catedral de Liverpool'/><title type='text'>Fuego (en castellano)</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Agustín Fernández&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Fuego&lt;/i&gt; &lt;br /&gt;(1987)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El título de esta obra se refiere a un tipo nada romántico de fuego: el fuego que el 2 de julio de 1986 quemó a dos estudiantes chilenos en las afueras de Santiago. No fue un fuego accidental, sino hecho a propósito, cuando soldados de Pinochet usaron queroseno y fósforos con la intención de quemar a los dos jóvenes. Según parece, se trataba de una suerte de castigo ejemplar que las Fuerzas Armadas chilenas habían querido imponer, y con tal motivo habían escogido a sus víctimas más o menos al azar, cuando dispersaban a una manifestación durante una huelga general.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El fuego es un elemento que adquirió un poder simbólico en la vida chilena de este periodo. La casa presidencial (La Moneda) ardió cuando Pinochet subió al poder. El activista Sebastián Acevedo se prendió fuego en protesta por las atrocidades del régimen. La población solía encender velas de noche en memoria de los muertos incontables.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En 1987 esta pieza fue también una protesta, además de un treno por los muertos y un elogio al coraje de los muchos chilenos que, de cara al peligro de muerte, se rebelaron. Pero esta música es también, lo confieso, una expresión de fascinación, de hipnosis ante esa extraña recurrencia del fuego. Las mutaciones del fuego en distintas situaciones me dictó la forma: un tema y siete variaciones. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Fuego&lt;/i&gt; fue escrita por encargo de la Orquesta de la Catedral Metroplitana de Cristo Rey, Liverpool, y fue estrenada por esa orquesta bajo la dirección de James Wishart, en la Catedral, el 23 de mayo de 1987. La pieza está dedicada a las dos víctimas, Rodrigo Rojas de Negri y Carmen Gloria Quintana.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;© Agustín Fernández&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8035901971157124680-3126326635018822419?l=fernandeznotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fernandeznotes.blogspot.com/feeds/3126326635018822419/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8035901971157124680&amp;postID=3126326635018822419' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8035901971157124680/posts/default/3126326635018822419'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8035901971157124680/posts/default/3126326635018822419'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fernandeznotes.blogspot.com/2007/04/fuego-en-castellano.html' title='Fuego (en castellano)'/><author><name>Agustín Fernández</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17818640119574963497</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wpHxSwQjQX0/TA43Gtent6I/AAAAAAAAAMU/GVX4cRNeZ5g/S220/Hinojosa+2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
