ON GREEN DOLPHIN STREET

MILES DAVIS(INSTRUMENTAL)

SONGWRITER: Bronisław Kaper

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: MILES DAVIS KIND OF BLUE

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1959

 

Miles Dewey Davis III(May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz.

Born in Alton, Illinois, and raised in East St. Louis, Davis left to study at Juilliard in New York City, before dropping out and making his professional debut as a member of saxophonist Charlie Parker's bebop quintet from 1944 to 1948. Shortly after, he recorded the Birth of the Cool sessions for Capitol Records, which were instrumental to the development of cool jazz. In the early 1950s, Davis recorded some of the earliest hard bop music while on Prestige Records but did so haphazardly due to a heroin addiction. After a widely acclaimed comeback performance at the Newport Jazz Festival, he signed a long-term contract with Columbia Records, and recorded the album 'Round About Midnight in 1955. It was his first work with saxophonist John Coltrane and bassist Paul Chambers, key members of the sextet he led into the early 1960s. During this period, he alternated between orchestral jazz collaborations with arranger Gil Evans, such as the Spanish music-influenced Sketches of Spain(1960), and band recordings, such as Milestones(1958) and Kind of Blue(1959). The latter recording remains one of the most popular jazz albums of all time, having sold over five million copies in the U.S.

"On Green Dolphin Street"(originally titled "Green Dolphin Street") is a 1947 popular song composed by Bronisław Kaper with lyrics by Ned Washington. The song was composed for the film Green Dolphin Street, which was based on a 1944 novel of the same name by Elizabeth Goudge, and became a jazz standard in the 1950s.

WHEN WINTER COMES

CHRIS DE BURGH/INSTRUMENTAL

SONGWRITER: CHRIS THE BURGH

COUNTRY: IRELAND

ALBUM: THE ROAD TO FREEDOM

LABEL: A & M RECORDS

GENRE: ART ROCK

YEAR: 2004

 

     Christopher John Davison(born 15 October 1948), known professionally as Chris de Burgh(English:/dˈbɜːr/;d'-BER), is a British-Irish singer-songwriter and instrumentalist. He started out as an art rock performer but subsequently started writing more pop-oriented material. He has had several top 40 hits in the UK and two in the US, but he is more popular in other countries, particularly Norway and Brazil. His 1986 love song "The Lady in Red" reached number one in several countries. De Burgh has sold over 45 million albums worldwide.

      De Burgh was born in Venado Tuerto, Argentina, to Colonel Charles John Davison, a British diplomat, and Maeve Emily (née de Burgh), His maternal grandfather was Sir Eric de Burgh, a British Army officer who had been Chief of the General Staff in India during the Second World War. He took his mother's maiden name, "de Burgh", as a stage name when he began performing, while his legal surname remains "Davison". His father had substantial farming interests, and Chris spent much of his early years in Malta, Nigeria and Belgian Congo, as he, his mother and brother accompanied Colonel Davison on his diplomatic and engineering work.

     The Davisons finally settled in Bargy Castle, County Wexford, Ireland, which was somewhat dilapidated at the time. It was a twelfth-century castle which Eric de Burgh bought in the 1960s. He converted it into a hotel, and young Chris sang for the guests there.

   De Burgh attended Marlborough College in Wiltshire, England, where he was in the year below Nick Drake; de Burgh asked to join a jazz band Drake had formed with four schoolmates, the Perfumed Gardeners, but was rejected as his taste was "too poppy". De Burgh went on to graduate from Trinity College Dublin, with a Master of Arts degree in French, English and History.

       This is the first time I've ever put a track that is completely instrumental on a record. It's very evocative, and very 18th Century, which leads then into the title track..."

MY LITTLE BROWN BOOK

DUKE ELLINGTON & JOHN COLTRANE

SONGWRITER: BILLY STRAYHORN

HOW: INSTRUMENTAL

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: DUKE ELLINGTON & JOHN COLTRANE

LABEL: IMPULSE!

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1974

 

          Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life.

        Born in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem. In the 1930s, his orchestra toured Europe several times.

         Some of the jazz musicians who were members of Ellington's orchestra, such as saxophonist Johnny Hodges, are considered among the best players in the idiom. Ellington melded them into the best-regarded orchestral unit in the history of jazz. Some members stayed with the orchestra for several decades. A master at writing miniatures for the three-minute 78 rpm recording format, Ellington wrote or collaborated on more than one thousand compositions; his extensive body of work is the largest recorded personal jazz legacy, and many of his pieces have become standards. He also recorded songs written by his bandsmen, such as Juan Tizol's "Caravan", which brought a Spanish tinge to big band jazz. At the end of the 1930s, Ellington began a nearly thirty-year collaboration with composer-arranger-pianist Billy Strayhorn, whom he called his writing and arranging companion. With Strayhorn, he composed multiple extended compositions, or suites, as well as many short pieces. For a few years at the beginning of Strayhorn's involvement, Ellington's orchestra is considered to have been at its peak, with bassist Jimmy Blanton and tenor saxophonist Ben Webster briefly members. Following a low-profile period (Hodges temporarily left), an appearance by Ellington and his orchestra at the Newport Jazz Festival in July 1956 led to a major revival and regular world tours. Ellington recorded for most American record companies of his era, performed in and scored several films, and composed a handful of stage musicals.

         Although a pivotal figure in the history of jazz, in the opinion of Gunther Schuller and Barry Kernfeld, "the most significant composer of the genre", Ellington himself embraced the phrase "beyond category", considering it a liberating principle, and referring to his music as part of the more general category of American Music. Ellington was known for his inventive use of the orchestra, or big band, as well as for his eloquence and charisma. He was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize Special Award for music in 1999

        John William Coltrane(September 23, 1926–July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

        Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes and was one of the players at the forefront of free jazz. He led at least fifty recording sessions and appeared on many albums by other musicians, including trumpeter Miles Davis and pianista Thelonious Monk. Over the course of his career, Coltrane's music took on an increasingly spiritual dimension, as exemplified on his most acclaimed albums A Love Supreme(1965) and Ascension(1966).

  He remains one of the most influential saxophonists in music history and has received numerous posthumous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize in 2007, and was canonized by the African Orthodox Church.

       His second wife was pianist and harpista Alice Coltrane. The couple had three children: John Jr. (1964–1982), a bassist; Ravi(born 1965), a saxophonist; and Oran(born 1967), a saxophonist, guitarist, drummer and singer.

My little brown book

With the silver binding

How it keeps reminding me

Of a memory

That's haunting me.

In some quiet nook

I go thru its pages

And peruse this ageless tale

Of a love that failed

To ever become true.

On this page is the date

Of that fateful night at eight

When I found you were no longer in love.

After that there's nothing more

Just a dark and futile door

That shuts out the stars above.

In my little book

I inscribed your heart vow

But since we're apart now

This and that last sweet kiss

Is all that's left of you

Is all that's left of you.

LILY WAS HERE

CANDY DULFER & DAVE STEWART

SONGWRITER: DAVID A. STEWART

HOW: INSTRUMENTAL

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: LILY WAS HERE

LABEL: ANXIOUS RECORD

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1989

 

          David Allan Stewart(born 9 September 1952) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, best known for Eurythmics, his successful professional partnership with Annie Lennox. Normally credited as David A. Stewart, he won Best British Producer at the 1986, 1987 and 1990 Brit Awards.

          Candy Dulfer(born 19 September 1969) is a Dutch jazz and pop saxophonist. She is the daughter of jazz saxophonist Hans Dulfer. She began playing at age six and founded her band Funky Stuff when she was fourteen. Her debut álbum Saxuality(1990) received a Grammy nomination. She has performed and recorded with Hans Dulfer, Prince, Dave Stewart, Van Morrison, Angie Stone, Maceo Parker and Rick Braun and has performed live with Alan Parsons(1995), Pink Floyd(1990), and Tower of Power(2014). She hosted the Dutch television series Candy Meets...(2007), in which she interviewed musicians. In 2013, she became a judge in the 5th season of the Dutch version of X Factor.

       "Lily Was Here" is an instrumental duet by English musician David A. Stewart and Dutch saxophonist Candy Dulfer. It was released as a single in 1989 from the soundtrack of the same name for the Dutch movie De Kassière, also known by the English title Lily Was Here. The song reached number one in the Netherlands and became a top-twenty hit in several other European countries, Australia, and the United States.

SUMMER MADNESS

KOOL & THE GANG

SONGWRITERS: KOOL & THE GANG & MICKENS, ALTON TAYLOR

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: LIGHT OF WORLDS

LABEL: DE-LITE

GENRE: R & B/INSTRUMENTAL

YEAR: 1974

 

      Light of Worlds is the fifth studio album, and seventh album of new material by the American R&B group Kool & the Gang. Released in 1974, it was later remastered by Polygram and was a second success for the band, reaching number 16 in the R&B Charts and number 63 in the Pop Charts. It was a landmark in the funk/jazz fusion genre of the 1970s.

         Light of Worlds is regarded as Kool & the Gang's most spiritual and sophisticated work, produced in the wake of the success of their previous album, Wild and Peaceful. While it was their seventh album of original material, the band considered Light of the Worlds their ninth LP (counting two compilations), and therefore consciously chose nine songs for the album to represent the then nine planets in the Solar System. The album contains rock-inspired funk set to jazz-informed playing with afrobeat influences and a tinge of analogue synthesizing.

       "Summer Madness" is considered [according to whom?] to be the album's highlight, incorporating smooth melodies and a synthesizer. It was later released as a single, with a follow-up titled "Winter Sadness" in Kool & the Gang's Spirit of the Boogie a year later. In 1991, the Hip-Hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince sampled elements of "Summer Madness" for their song "Summertime". A remake of "Summer Madness" was released on their 1993 album Unite titled "WKOOL/Summer".

SWINGING´AT THE HAVEN

THE MARSALIS FAMILY

SONGWRITER: THE MARSALIS FAMILY

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: THE MARSALIS FAMILY: A JAZZ CELEBRATION

LABEL: MARSALIS LABEL

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 2002

 

        Marsalis family, American family, considered the “first family of jazz,” who (particularly brothers Wynton and Branford) had a major impact on jazz in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The family includes Ellis(b. November 14, 1934, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.—d. April 1, 2020, New Orleans) and his sons Branford (b. August 26, 1960, Breaux Bridge, Louisiana), Wynton(b. October 18, 1961, New Orleans), Delfeayo(b. July 28, 1965, New Orleans), and Jason(b. March 4, 1977, New Orleans).

         Ellis Marsalis began as a tenor saxophonist but switched to piano while in high school. After earning a music degree from Dillard University and serving in the U.S. Marines, he worked for the AFO (All-for-One) record label in the late 1950s, recorded with brothers Nat and Julian (“Cannonball”) Adderley in 1962, and was trumpeter Al Hirt’s pianist during 1967–70. It was as a jazz educator, however, that he made his greatest mark. In 1974 he began teaching at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, where his pupils included Harry Connick, Jr., Terence Blanchard, Donald Harrison, Nicholas Payton, and Kent and Marlon Jordan, as well as his own six sons, four of whom became celebrated musicians. The success of his sons resulted in Ellis’s attaining stardom in the 1980s, and he recorded steadily thereafter.

        All five members of the Marsalis family were named Jazz Masters by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2011.

PEDACINHOS DO CÉU

IZAÍAS E SEUS CHORÕES | INSTRUMENTAL SESC BRASIL

COMPOSITOR: WALDIR AZEVEDO

PAÍS: BRASIL

ÁQLBUM: IZAÍAS E SEUS CHORÕES

GRAVADORA: SESC BRASIL

GÊNERO: CHORINHO/INSTRUMENTAL

ANO: 2011

 

          Izaías e seus Chorões é um conjunto regional de choro formado em São Paulo, no início da década de 70. Alguns dos integrantes são o bandolinista Izaías Bueno de Almeida e Israel Bueno de Almeida, que toca violão de 7 cordas.

          O grupo participou de diversos programas sobre choro na TV Cultura de São Paulo e acompanhou músicos famosos como Altamiro Carrilho, Paulinho da Viola e Arthur Moreira Lima, dentre outros.

        Conforme depoimento dado pelos irmãos Izaías (SP, 1937) e Israel Bueno de Almeida (SP, 1943) para o livro “CHORANDO NA GAROA – MEMÓRIAS MUSICAIS DE SÃO PAULO”, de José de Almeida Amaral Júnior, ambos eram apaixonados por música desde a meninice. Seu pai, sr. Benedito, ferroviário, tocava clarinete e conhecia muito de teoria musical. Isto certamente acabou influenciando os meninos.

       Izaías iniciou primeiro o trato com a música. Israel, mais novo, acompanhou posteriormente. A família vivia na Casa Verde, região da zona norte paulistana, onde eram comuns os grupos chorões e seresteiros.

           Izaías, na adolescência, montou um conjunto, o Grupo Bola Preta, com amigos. Israel, então, depois passou também a participar dos ensaios e apresentações. Izaías gostava de frequentar encontros de músicos na Casa Del Vecchio, rua Aurora, centro. Lá viu Garoto, Mário Portela, Jaime Soares, Serelepe, muita gente boa que visitava o espaço sempre que possível. E, aos poucos, trocando experiências, foram se tornando conhecidos no meio. Travaram contato com nomes notáveis como Antonio Rago, Xixa, Roberto Sass, Portinho, Hortêncio, Jucy, entre outros. E não deixavam de frequentar a lendária roda de choro de Antonio D'Áuria, na Avenida Rudge, nos anos 50, ponto de encontro de bambas de todo o país que, ao visitarem São Paulo, passavam na casa do violonista D'Áurea para uma "chorada". Alguns exemplos para constar são Pixinguinha, Jacob do Bandolim e Altamiro Carrilho. Deste núcleo, surgiu o Conjunto Atlântico, tendo à frente D'Áuria, onde Izaías acabou com o tempo tornando-se figura titular, especialmente após o afastamento do bandolinista Amador Pinho. Ainda jovens, participaram das históricas "Noites dos Choristas", criadas por Jacob do Bandolim e veiculadas pela TV Record em maio de 1955 e abril de 56.

          Os irmãos tocaram também paralelamente no regional de Mauro Silva e no de Caçulinha, apresentando-se em importantes programas como "O Fino da Bossa" e "Bossaudade", na TV Record, junto a Elizeth Cardoso, Ciro Monteiro, Elis Regina e demais convidados. Com o fim do Conjunto Atlântico e a "aposentadoria musical" de D'Aurea, Izaías passou a liderar a sua própria formação, o conjunto Izaías e Seus Chorões, entre outras coisas, veiculando programas na TV Cultura, em parceria com o produtor e apresentador Julio Lerner, um grande divulgador do chorinho. Em 1974 Izaías faturou o premio APCA como 'revelação do ano'. Parceiros básicos no grupo eram Marçola, violão, Malavasi, cavaco, Clodoaldo, pandeiro e Valdir Guide, percussão. No dia 21 de novembro de 1979 o conjunto tocou no Teatro Municipal de São Paulo nas comemorações de 30 anos da carreira de Waldir Azevedo, ao lado de Carlos Poyares, Ademilde Fonseca, Paulinho da Viola, Copinha, Cesar Faria, Raphael Rabello, Paulo Moura, Arthur Moreira Lima, Celso Machado e Osmar do Trio Elétrico, com LP registrado pela brasileira Continental.

           Pedacinhos do céu foi uma homenagem de Waldir Azevedo as suas duas filhas, Mirian e Marly, às quais ele se referia como “pedacinhos do céu”. Por esse motivo Waldir não cansava de dizer que esse era seu choro preferido e um dos mais inspirados que já havia feito. Em entrevista Waldir disse: “Esta composição foi feita em homenagem às minhas queridas filhinhas Mirian e Marly, assim como para todas as crianças do Brasil. Elas estavam sentadinhas e eu as namorando. Sempre que tenho que executá-la, seja no rádio ou em excursões, faço-o de olhos fechados, com o pensamento voltado para elas. Nenhuma das minhas musicas possui tão grande conteúdo emotivo quanto pedacinhos do Céu”.

BALLADE POUR ADELINE

RICHARD CLAYDERMAN/PIANO

COMPOSITEUR: PAUL DE SENEVILLE

PAYS: FRANCE

ALBUM: BALLADE POUR ADELINE

RECORD: TELEFUNKEN

GENRE: NEW AGE/INSTRUMENT

ANNÉE: 1977

 

       Richard Clayderman, né Philippe Pagès le 28 décembre 1953 à Paris, est un pianiste français. Il a vendu à ce jour plus de 90 millions de disques, incluant les compositions de Paul de Senneville et de Marc Minier. Il a donné plus de 2.000 concerts dans le monde et a reçu plus de 340 disques d'or et de platine.

           Fils d'un professeur d'accordéon de l'école de musique de Romainville, Philippe Pagès commence l'étude du piano à l'âge de six ans dans la classe de madame Liévens, apprenant le solfège avec Robert Liévens, directeur de l'école et professeur de violoncelle, avant d'être admis au Conservatoire de Paris à 12 ans. À la sortie de ce dernier, il travaille comme accompagnateur et musicien de scène. Sa vie prend un nouveau tournant avec la publication en 1976 d'um 45 tours intitulé Ballade pour Adeline, composé par le producteur Paul de Senneville: ce titre, avec une mélodie simple, devient en effet un succès mondial, avec plus de 22 millions de disques vendus dans 38 pays. Depuis, Clayderman a enregistré plus de 1.600 titres et demeure au fil des années l'un des artistes français les plus populaires à travers le monde, avec des ventes estimées à plus de 90 millions de disques. Au sommet de sa carrière, il a produit jusqu'à 200 concerts en 250 jours.

           En 1997, grâce à plus de 1.500 concerts, il a déjà reçu quelque 61 disques de platine et 251 disques d'or.

    Ballade pour Adeline1 est une composition instrumentale de Paul de Senneville. Sur une mélodie relativement simple, elle est interprétée au piano par Richard Clayderman en 1977 et connait un important succès commercial international.

           À l'issue d'une audition, Richard Clayderman est choisi pour interpréter la ballade qui sera vendue à plus de 22 millions d'exemplaires.

          Danielle Licari enregistra une version chantée et Jean-Claude Borelly une adaptation pour trompette en 1982.

ALL BLUES

MILES DAVIS

INSTRUMENT: TRUMPET

SONGWRITER: MILES DAVIS

COUNTRY:

ALBUM: KIND OF BLUES

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: MODAL JAZZ

YEAR: 1969

 

      Miles Dewey Davis III(May 26, 1926– September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz.

        Born in Alton, Illinois, and raised in East St. Louis, Davis left to study at Juilliard in New York City, before dropping out and making his professional debut as a member of saxophonist Charlie Parker's bebop quintet from 1944 to 1948. Shortly after, he recorded the Birth of the Cool sessions for Capitol Records, which were instrumental to the development of cool jazz. In the early 1950s, Miles Davis recorded some of the earliest hard bop music while on Prestige Records but did so haphazardly due to a heroin addiction. After a widely acclaimed comeback performance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1955, he signed a long-term contract with Columbia Records and recorded the 1957 album 'Round About Midnight. It was his first work with saxophonist John Coltrane and bassist Paul Chambers, key members of the sextet he led into the early 1960s. During this period, he alternated between orchestral jazz collaborations with arranger Gil Evans, such as the Spanish music-influenced Sketches of Spain(1960), and band recordings, such as Milestones (1958) and Kind of Blue(1959). The latter recording remains one of the most popular jazz albums of all time, having sold over five million copies in the U.S.

       "All Blues" is a jazz composition by Miles Davis first appearing on the influential 1959 album Kind of Blue. It is a twelve-bar blues in 6/8; the chord sequence is that of a basic blues and made up entirely of seventh chords, with a ♭VI in the turnaround instead of just the usual V chord. In the composition's original key of G this chord is an E♭7. "All Blues" is an example of modal blues in G mixolydian.

        A particularly distinctive feature of the piece is the bass line that repeats through the whole piece, except when a V or ♭VI chord is reached (the 9th and 10th bars of a chorus). Further, there is a harmonically similar vamp that is played by the horns (the two saxophones in the case of Kind of Blue) at the beginning and then (usually) continued by the piano under any solos that take place. Each chorus is usually separated by a four-bar vamp which acts as an introduction to the next solo/chorus.

         While originally an instrumental piece, lyrics were later added by Oscar Brown Jr.

DON’T BE THAT WAY

BENNY GOODMAN

SONGWRITERS: BENNY GOODMAN; EDGARD SAMPSON & MITCHELL PARISH

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: DON1T BE THAT WAY

LABEL: JAZZROOTS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1991

 

          Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing".

        In the mid-1930s, Goodman led one of the most popular musical groups in the United States. His concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City on January 16, 1938, is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music."

         Goodman's bands started the careers of many jazz musicians. During an era of racial segregation, he led one of the first integrated jazz groups. He performed nearly to the end of his life while exploring an interest in classical music.

          Goodman was the ninth of twelve children born to poor Jewish emigrants from the Russian Empire. His father, David Goodman (1873–1926), came to the United States in 1892 from Warsaw in partitioned Poland and became a tailor. His mother, Dora Grisinsky, (1873–1964), came from Kovno. They met in Baltimore, Maryland, and moved to Chicago before Goodman's birth. With little income and a large family, they moved to the Maxwell Street neighborhood, an overcrowded slum near railroad yards and factories that was populated by German, Irish, Italian, Polish, Scandinavian, and Jewish immigrants.

         Money was a constant problem. On Sundays, his father took the children to free band concerts in Douglass Park, which was the first time Goodman experienced live professional performances. To give his children some skills and an appreciation for music, his father enrolled ten-year-old Goodman and two of his brothers in music lessons, from 1919, at the Kehelah Jacob Synagogue and Benny received two years of instruction from the classically trained clarinetist and Chicago Symphony member, Franz Schoepp. During the next year Goodman joined the boys club band at Hull House, where he received lessons from director James Sylvester. By joining the band, he was entitled to spend two weeks at a summer camp near Chicago. It was the only time he could get away from his bleak neighborhood. At 13, he got his first union card. He performed on Lake Michigan excursion boats, and in 1923 played at Guyon's Paradise, a local dance hall.

       In summer 1923, he met Bix Beiderbecke. He attended the Lewis Institute (Illinois Institute of Technology) in 1924 as a high-school sophomore and played clarinet in a dance hall band.

          When he was 17, his father was killed by a passing car after stepping off a streetcar. His father's death was "the saddest thing that ever happened in our family", Goodman said

LA NOCHE DE LOS MAYAS

ALONDRA DE LA PARRA, ORCHESTRE DE PARIS

COMPOSITOR: SILVESTRE REVUELTAS

PAIS: MÉXICO

ÁLBUM: ALONDRA DE LA PARRA CONDUCTS L'ORCHESTRE DE PARIS IN A CONCERT THAT WEAVES MUSICAL BRIDGES BETWEEN MEXICO AND FRANCE

DISCOGRÁFICA: SONY MUSIC

GÉNERO: SUÍTE - INSTRUMENTAL

AÑO: 2015

 

             Silvestre Revueltas Sánchez (31 de diciembre de 1899-5 de octubre de 1940) fue un compositor mexicano de música clásica, violinista y director de orquesta.

           Revueltas nació em Santiago Papasquiaro en Durango, y estudió en el Conservatorio Nacional en la Ciudad de México, la Universidad St. Edward en Austin, Texas, y el Colegio de Música de Chicago. Dio recitales de violín y en 1929 fue invitado por Carlos Chávez para convertirse en director asistente de la Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México, cargo que ocupó hasta 1935. Él y Chávez hicieron mucho para promover la música mexicana contemporánea. Fue por esta época cuando Revueltas comenzó a componer en serio. Comenzó su primera banda sonora cinematográfica, Redes, en 1934, una comisión que resultó en la pelea de Revueltas y Chávez. Chávez originalmente esperaba escribir la partitura, pero los cambios políticos lo llevaron a perder su trabajo en el Ministerio de Educación, que estaba detrás del proyecto cinematográfico. Revueltas dejó la orquesta de Chávez en 1935 para ser el director principal de una orquesta rival recién creada y de corta duración, la Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional.

            Pertenecía a uma familia de artistas, algunos de los cuales también eran famosos y reconocidos en México: su hermano Fermín (1901-1935) y su hermana Consuelo (nacida antes de 1908, fallecida antes de 1999) eran pintores, hermana Rosaura (ca. 1909) –1996) fue actriz y bailarina, y su hermano menor José Revueltas(1914–1976) fue un destacado escritor. Su hija de su primer matrimonio con Jules Klarecy (de soltera Hlavacek), Romano Carmen (más tarde Montoya y Peers), disfrutó de una exitosa carrera como bailarina, enseñó ballet y flamenco en Nueva York, y murió el 13 de noviembre de 1995, a los 73 años, en Atenas, Grecia. Le sobreviven tres hijos y dos herederas creativas afines en Oceanside, California. Su hija de su segundo matrimonio, Eugenia (nacida el 15 de noviembre de 1934), es ensayista. Su sobrino Román Revueltas Retes, hijo de José, es violinista, periodista Y pintor.

            Tumba de Silvestre Revueltas en el cementerio Panteón Civil de Dolores en la Ciudad de México

En 1937 Revueltas viajó a España durante la Guerra Civil Española, como parte de una gira organizada por la organización de Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios (LEAR); tras la victoria de Francisco Franco, regresó a México. Ganó poco y cayó en la pobreza y el alcoholismo. Murió en la Ciudad de México de neumonía(complicada por el alcoholismo), a los 40 años el 5 de octubre de 1940, día en que se estrenaba su ballet El renacuajo paseador, escrito cuatro años antes. Sus restos se conservan en la Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres de la Ciudad de México.

        Alondra de la Parra ha ganado una gran atención por sus fascinantes y vibrantes interpretaciones y su compromiso con los compositores latinoamericanos. Ha dirigido más de 100 de las orquestas más prestigiosas del mundo, incluidas la Orquesta de París, la Orquesta Filarmónica de Londres, la Tonhalle-Orchestre de Zúrich, la Sinfónica de Bamberg, la Orquesta Sinfónica de la Radio Sueca, la Orquesta Sinfónica de São Paulo, la Orquesta Sinfónica de la Radio de Berlín y la Orquesta dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa. Cecilia.

Desde enero de 2017 hasta noviembre de 2019, fue directora musical de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Queensland, lo que la convirtió en la primera directora musical de una orquesta australiana. Es Embajadora Cultural oficial de México, donde vio ventas de nivel platino de su primer álbum “Mi Alma Mexicana” y, en marzo de 2017, fue nombrada embajadora internacional de la marca Mercedes-Benz. Desde julio de 2017, Deutsche Welle emite 'Musica Maestra', un nuevo formato clásico que presenta a Alondra de la Parra como protagonista y reportera en una serie de varios videos web y programas de televisión.

              En la temporada 2019/20 celebra su debut con la Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra en Musikverein, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg con Rolando Villazón, Frankfurt Radio Symphony y Staatskapelle Dresden para el Concierto de Navidad 2019 en Frauenkirche, transmitido por el canal de televisión alemán ZDF.

        Dirige Romeo y Julieta de Tchaikovsky con Queensland Ballet en Brisbane, un concierto en la Komische Oper Berlin con el violonchelista Jan Vogler y regresa a la Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, con la que ha estado trabajando en estrecha colaboración durante varios años.

       Alondra de la Parra también regresa a Tonhalle-Orchestre Zürich, a Staatsoper Berlin para la reanudación de la producción de Yuval Sharon de Zauberflöte de Mozart y a la Royal Opera House en junio de 2020.

            La noche de los mayas es una banda sonora del compositor mexicano Silvestre Revueltas para la película de 1939 del mismo nombre, que se relaciona con la herencia precolombina de México. La partitura de Revueltas consta de 36 secuencias sin relación orgánica entre sí, compuestas para adaptarse fácilmente a una película ya editada. Muchos de estos pasajes consisten en estereotipos de música de películas convencionales diseñados para subrayar la historia de manera discreta, en lugar de ofrecer ninguna novedad. Se encuentra una excepción en algunas escenas de la cultura yucateca.folklore, donde la música adquiere aspectos del nacionalismo más característicos del estilo personal de Revueltas. (Estos pasajes fueron reunidos por Limantour en el segundo movimiento de su suite, titulado "Noche de jaranas".)

           Una suite de la partitura fue grabada por la Orquesta Sinfónica de Jalapa , dirigida por Luis Herrera de la Fuente, y publicada por Catalyst Records en 1994.

        La versión de Hindemith fue grabada por la Tempus Fugit Orquesta dirigida por Christian Gohmer y publicada por Quindecim Records en 2014.

            La versión de José Limantour fue grabada por la Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar, dirigida por Gustavo Dudamel y publicada en Deutsche Grammophon en 2010. Anteriormente, en 1959, Limantour había grabado él mismo su arreglo, dirigiendo la Orquesta Sinfónica de Guadalajara. Esto se hizo en la época en que se realizó por primera vez el arreglo de Limantour.